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Visionary Leadership: Creating a Compelling Sense of Direction for Your Organization (JB US nonFranchise Leadership)
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Warren Bennis writes,the bookfills me with equal amounts of admiration and envy. For the first time ever, Nanus defines for us what ′the vision thing′ is all about.
Successful leaders know that nothing drives an organization like an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future. Leadership expert and best–selling author Burt Nanus finally shows why vision is the key to leadership and demonstrates how any leader can use a logical, step–by–step process to create and implement a powerful new sense of direction in his or her organization.
Designed for individual leaders to develop their own vision statement, this book guides readers through the mechanics of forming a vision, guidelines for developing the scope of the vision, and processes for implementing that vision.
Visionary Leadership is an indispensable guide for leaders at all levels, from top executives to heads of divisions and departments, from large corporations to small businesses, from manufacturing and service organizations to government and nonprofit institutions.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #102656 in Books
- Published on: 1995-07-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"What makes great leaders great? That′s the question Burt Nanus attempts to answer in Visionary Leadership (and does so quite well, by the way). But if you′re thinking this is going to be another one of those nebulous, touchy–feely, here′s–the–kind–of–charisma–it–takes–to–get–ahead–in–business books, you′re only partly right. Visionary Leadership is all about the one essential component of great leadersnamely, being a visionarybut it′s not a theoretical treatise. Nanus writes not only of the necessity of a vision to your business′ success, but also how to develop and sustain that vision.′′
"Likely to prove the most important management book of the year.′′ ––Edward Cornish, president, World Future Society
"Ideas with vision have power and magic that carry those ideas beyond the people who create them. Burt Nanus shows us how to find such vision.′′ ––U.S. Senator Bob Graham
From the Author
Origins of this book
I originally wrote this book to follow up a work with Warren Bennis called "Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge." Readers of that book asked me why I thought vision was so critical to effective leadership and how, specifically, they could generate visions that would make a real and powerful difference in their own organizations.
This book was the result. Fortunately, it was well received by professionals in the field. In the year it was published (1992), "Visionary Leadership" was listed as one of the best management books of the year by Library Journal. It was both a Book of the Month Club and a Fortune Book Club Selection, and was eventually translated into six other languages.
After you've read the book, I'd be pleased to hear about your reactions. Or, if you use the techniques described in this book, or in its two companion volumes on "The Vision Retreat", please share your experiences with me. Who knows - there may be a sequel!
From the Inside Flap
The book that Warren Bennis writes, "fills me with equal amounts of admiration and envy. For the first time ever, Nanus defines for us what ′the vision thing′ is all about.′′Successful leaders know that nothing drives an organization like an attractive, worthwhile, achievable vision for the future. Leadership expert and best–selling author Burt Nanus finally shows why vision is the key to leadership and demonstrates how any leader can use a logical, step–by–step process to create and implement a powerful new sense of direction in his or her organization.Designed for individual leaders to develop their own vision statement, this book guides readers through the mechanics of forming a vision, guidelines for developing the scope of the vision, and processes for implementing that vision.Visionary Leadership is an indispensable guide for leaders at all levels, from top executives to heads of divisions and departments, from large corporations to small businesses, from manufacturing and service organizations to government and nonprofit institutions.
Customer Reviews
Top quality insights to meaningful leadership.
It's not often that an author keeps "topping" previous work in terms of refining intricate concepts, but that is what Nanus has done here. If you are in a leadership position, the diagram of the essential components of leadership in the first chapter is alone worth the price of admission. These are insights by someone who has studied and analyzed what it takes to be a "facilitative" leader--not a boss leader, not a manager, but a true "inspirer" of others who can harness the energies and maximize the focus of an organization--a "leader of leaders"--this book essentially lays out how to maximize BOTH alignment and empowerment----this is a great book.
