Visionary Leadership: A Guidebook for 21st Century Organizations and Entrepreneurial Teams

Visionary Leadership guides managers and leaders through the phases of the vision development and realization cycle. This book walks business leaders through the vision iteration process from start to finish, offering a new framework in visionary leadership theory. Three elements differentiate Visionary Leadership from other books on this topic.
   
   Counter-narratives. Visionary leadership has another side to its story. This counternarrative plays in the background of organizational life and quickly frustrates experienced and emerging leaders after casting a vision. These stories represent a hallmark of this book and in this work, the author illustrates what happens before the visionary leader takes the stage…and after they leave it. Two popular counter-narratives include:
   
   *Pitfalls of Vision Adoption*
   Rejection of a vision hides in plain sight. It resembles employees who stifle progress and sabotage future plans. Why? They feel their leader failed to give them a voice or a hand in shaping the organization’s future—their future. As an innovative, larger-than-life idea, vision can be accepted or rejected by stakeholders. Founders who come to grips with this fact spare themselves much frustration in the long run. This book helps leaders to rewind, increase buy-in, prevent a vision from falling into the dreaded adoption pit (and to rescue one that has already fallen victim).
   
   *Vision-Culture Wars and Organizational Health* COVID-19 brought terms associated with immunology to the forefront of human consciousness. Pathogens, like perfectionism, can infect an organization just as diseases can affect the human body. (Just because you work remotely doesn’t mean you’re immune to a toxic organizational culture.) This book maps organizational antibodies and pathogens that emerge in vision-culture wars.
   
   Spin. The stories of well-known companies like 3M, Starbucks, Google/Alphabet, Facebook/Meta, Blackberry, Blockbuster, Tesla, Apple, Ford, and Toyota are told through the lens of this book’s proprietary model. Leaders and followers can import these new insights into their situations to accelerate vision realization and fulfillment.
   
   Comprehensive visionary leadership framework. Can an organization learn to see? If so, how? Those two questions drive this work. After an unsuccessful search for existing material, the author assembled a framework to extend visionary leadership theory and refresh this common approach for 21st-century organizations and entrepreneurial teams. This book is not about one leader creating and communicating a picture of the future. Plenty of books exist to address that topic. This book contains a comprehensive and proprietary framework for building a visionary organization.

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