Leaders Are Visionary

What do you see? That is a powerful question in terms of planning and development. The key to accomplishing anything worthwhile is vision, being able to see what you are pursuing before you actually get it. R. Kelly says in his song I Believe I Can Fly, “If I can see it, then I can do it.” The reality is that you are only limited by what you can see.

Leaders are visionary. They have the ability to see into the future. They see before others see. I know that may sound kind of fishy, but look at it this way. Great leaders are those who created fantastic images in their minds of the future they wanted to achieve. They captured their images and transformed them into statements of vision and cast those vision statements to their teams. Their teams then had a clear understanding of the direction in which the leader wanted to progress and effectively moved in that direction.

My company is currently a small company, but the vision is magnificent. If my laders can see the picture, it encompasses many departments and many hundreds of people fulfilling the roles. My leaders have to ask themselves this question, "What future do I see?" That has to be the driving question for planning their daily activities, and the answer has to move us toward that magnificent vision. They have to be able to see themselves within the big picture and create a vision of their own from that perspective. Great leaders truly are visionary.