The vision thing

1. “The vision thing”

2. “The first basic
ingredient of leadership
is a guiding vision. The
leader has a clear idea
of what he or she wants
to do—professionally
and personally—and
the strength to persist in
the face of setbacks,
even failures.”
Warren Bennis

3. “A vision is a portrait of the future that grabs.”
Warren Bennis
Essential role of vision:
“vision is an image of the future- it is
where we are heading”
1. Mission Statement
2. Long-term goals
3. Core values
4. Vivid description
What is a Vision?

4. 1. Mission Statement
A statement expressing the person’s or
organization’s underlying reason for being.

5. Vision in Education
Our vision expresses values and beliefs about
what our school community considers to be
of real importance in education

6. Vision is important part of effective
school leadership
Reason :
Vision clarifies purpose and direction and is
therefore a source of motivation and energy
And this:
 powerfully shaped practice within a school
community

7. Charles Handy (1992) set five
conditions if visionary leadership
is to effective
The vision has to be different.
The vision must make sense to others.
It must be understandable and capable of sticking in
people’s mind.
The leader must be exemplify the vision by his/her
own behavior.
The leader must remember that if the vision is to be
implemented it must be one that is shared.

8. 2. Long Term Goals
“Ambitious, concrete, and meaningful goals for
1-30 years down the line.”
Participatory:
Vision needs to be drawn from the views of
what matters of people in that community and
what sort of future community they want to
create.
It is participation that provides a sense of
ownership that fosters commitment to an agreed
vision

9. Seeking Change
The notion if change is at heart of
education.
All school’s provides an image of the sort
of direction in which that change might
happen.
School seek to change the way pupils
think,feel and perceive the social and the
natural world and their place in it.

10. “Become the dominant player in commercial
aircraft and bring the world into the jet age.”
(1950)

11. 3.Core values
“An organization’s or person's most fundamental and
inviolable codes of action”
 Collins argues, is simply a combination of three basic
elements:
 An organization’s fundamental reason for existence
beyond just making money.
 Its timeless,unchange core values
 Huge and audacious-but ultimately achievable –
aspirations for its own future.

12. 4. Vivid Description
“Bringing the vision to life using words that
create images.”
“Think of it as translating the vision from words
into pictures, or creating an image that people
can carry around in their heads.”
Collins & Porras

13. 3.Action Must Follow Words
“Unless a vision is sustained by action, it quickly turns to
ashes.”
Noel Tichy
“Leaders articulate and embody the ideals toward which
the organization strives.”
Warren Bennis
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
William Butler Yeats

14. Anita Roddick's view about
leaders vision statement
 The leader has to have a mortal agenda .
 If the leader is only saying we want to the biggest
company in the world, forget it.
 when you do that there’s no leadership .
 There is nothing more to aspire to. but if your
aspirations come from the values of your culture
or church or temple or mosque, you have
something beyond your own livelihood creation.
 It’s not just about compassion ,its about meaning
accomplishment.

15. Action Speaks Louder than Words
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what
you say.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Myth : Companies become visionaries through
“vision statements.”
Reality : Writing the vision is only a small step;
visionary companies walk the talk, their focus is on
expressing the vision.

16. Westley and Mintzberg’s (1989)
different styles of visionary
leadership
1. The creator
2. The proselytiser
3. The idealist
4. The bricoleurs
5. The Diviner

17. The creator;
 This type of visionary characterized by two
qualities:
1.orginality and the sudden
2.holistic quality of the vision.
e.g. Edwin land, inventor of the Polaroid
camera .however it would seem to fit as
entrepreneur category.
Cont…

18. Cont…..
Proselytier:
In this type of leadership we try to promote that
thing which does exist but by the passage of time
that required to being polished.
The idealist:
westley point out that this type of visionary leader is
rarely found in business.
The idealist is one who “dream of the perfection
minimizes or ignore the flaws and contradiction of
the real”

19. Cont….
The bricoleur: The term bricoleur refers to
one who frequents junkyards and collects
bits and pieces which he put together to
make new objects.
The Diviner:
By Jan carlzon the Diviners key quality is
insight into such processes as how to build
an organization.