{"id":1034,"date":"2005-08-01T13:16:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T13:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/can_you_see_my_\/"},"modified":"2005-08-01T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T13:16:58","slug":"can_you_see_my_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/can_you_see_my_\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You See My Vision?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When management (not leadership) has the power to restructure an organization it can be dangerous.  Managers often are lacking in the vision department, which can lead to very short term decision making.  Visionary leaders, however, see beyond today’s environment.  They communicate with candor and clarity.  People want to follow people like like this.  <\/p>\n

As we know, quality leaders don’t grow on trees.  Therefore, we are often left with the vision-less calling the shots.The best organizations (profit or non-profit) fill there key positions with visionary leaders.  These organizations know that "real" growth flows through people like this.<\/p>\n

Since I’m about solutions, here are some tangible solutions to help fix an organization’s management\/leadership quandary:<\/p>\n

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  1. Test and profile employees at all levels for vision potential. <\/li>\n
  2. Develop all facets (growth plans, vision casting, ethics, handling power, verbal and written communication) of the employee’s leadership walk. <\/li>\n
  3. Development needs to be formal, not informal. <\/li>\n
  4. All activity should be measurable. <\/li>\n
  5. Focus on strengths not weaknesses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To be great, we must be courageous.  No shortcuts…<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When management (not leadership) has the power to restructure an organization it can be dangerous.  Managers often are lacking in the vision department, which can lead to very short term decision making.  Visionary leaders, however, see beyond today’s environment.  They communicate with candor and clarity.  People want to follow people like like this.  As we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}