An Outsider View: The Journey of Leadership (Part 2: Ideas, Vision, Values, Competitive Position & Product Development)

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.