2. At GrowingLeadersToday.org, Sean Castorina offers a
group study for managers, entrepreneurs, and business
leaders. Participants explore leadership principles and
personal growth strategies. Himself an entrepreneur,
Mr. Castorina established or co-established such
successful companies as the Home Service Savings
Guide, a direct mail advertising venture, and
Charlottesville Property Management.
3. Navigation, properly understood, strongly sums up the
essential nature of leadership. While an individual can
pilot a ship, the mere mechanical act of steering is of a
fundamentally different nature from the visionary act of
charting a course. Navigators "see" or "imagine" the
journey before the ship even embarks, and at one time,
they were called “sea artists.” Like leaders, navigators
note obstacles before others. In imagining a successful
journey and in managing that journey in actuality,
navigators employ optimism as well as realism.
4. Each of the above statements could easily apply to a
strong leader. If a ship's pilot represents a manager,
then a navigator represents an entrepreneur. Pilots
differ from navigators in that the latter draw on prior
experience, allow conditions to inform commitments,
listen to others, and base conclusions on fact and faith.
