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Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.
Sep 29, 2025
Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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