%0 Journal Article
%T An Outsider View: The Journey of Leadership (Part 2: Ideas, Vision, Values, Competitive Position & Product Development)
%A Kenneth A. RETHMAIER
%J Management in Health
%D 2009
%I National Scool of Public Health Management and Professional Development, Bucharest
%X Leadership is the exercise of those competencies, skills, knowledge, and behaviors which guide and motivate others to actively pursue their work toward accomplishing a set of goals or objectives, and, to work toward achieving the vision for their organization. Leadership produces ¡°group performance¡±. The relative degree of the quality of the leadership demonstrated will result in a commensurate level of organizational performance. To that end, therefore, great leadership produces outstanding resultsA vision is characteristically defined as a desired future state or picture of what the leader¡¯s team or organization could become in some future timeframe. A vision is different from a mission statement. Mission is about what the organization/team does, how it performs it work, to whom or for whom it does its work, and it represents the present function of the organization/team. A leader¡¯s role is to define and articulate the vision for his/her organization/team and to help guide their efforts to work toward achieving the vision.
%K leadership
%K vision
%K values
%K competitive position
%K product development
%U http://journal.managementinhealth.com/index.php/rms/article/view/21/69