LEADERS ARE PURPOSEFUL
FURTHER QUOTATIONS ON
PURPOSEFUL LEADERSHIP
1. VISION:
- It’s the leaders’ job to establish the vision and values of the
organization.^43
- Worthwhile people are seeking to share a great purpose in life.^44
- A legacy of vision: ‘Creating and living an empowering mission
statement has a significant impact on the way we spend our time. When
we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about
speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting
years. Vision is the fundamental force that drives everything else in
our lives. It impassions us with a sense of the unique contribution
that’s ours to make. It empowers us to put first things first, compasses
ahead of clocks, people ahead of schedules and things...perhaps the
most important legacy we can leave is vision.’^45
- Vision is the best manifestation of creative imagination and the
primary motivation of human action. It’s the ability to see beyond
our present reality, to create, to invent what does not yet exist, to
become what we not yet are. It gives us capacity to live out of our
imagination instead of our memory. If our vision is based on the
social mirror, we make choices based on the expectations of others.
It’s been said that ‘when man discovered the mirror, he began to lose
his soul.’ If our self-vision is no more than a reflection of the social
mirror, we have no connection with our inner selves, with our own
uniqueness and capacity to contribute. We’re living out of scripts
handed to us by others – family, associates, friends, enemies, the
media.^46
- Victor Frankl said we don’t invent our mission; we detect it. It’s
within us waiting to be realized. Everyone has his own specific
mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that
demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be
repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity
to implement it.^47
- Vision is usually communicated most effectively when many
different vehicles are used: large group meetings, memos,
