Personal Reflection Paper
Module 7: Vision and Strategy (Chapter 13)
Lecture 1: Vision and Mission
Lecture 2: Strategy and Execution
Module 7: Vision and Strategy
Lecture 1: Vision and Mission
Lecture 2: Strategy and Execution
• Explain the relationship among vision, mission, strategy and execution
• Define vision and mission
• Explain the importance of strategic leadership
• Discuss the value of having a clear “main thing”
• Begin work on your “Personal Vision”
Lecture 1 Objectives
Strategic Leadership
Ability to:
• Anticipate and envision the future • Maintain flexibility • Think strategically • Initiate changes that will create a competitive
advantage for the organization in the future
The Strategic Leadership Domain
Developing Strategic Leadership
Skills required
Anticipate threats and opportunities
Challenge the status quo
Interpret trends
Achieve alignment
The Strategic Leadership Domain
Attractive, ideal future that is credible yet not readily attainable
Ambitious view of the future that: – Everyone involved can believe in – Can realistically be achieved – Offers a better future in important ways
Vision
Control Your Destiny
1. Control your destiny, or someone else will. 2. Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. 3. Be candid with everyone. 4. Don't manage, lead. 5. Change before you have to. 6. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
“Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will”
What Vision Does
Links the present to the future
Energizes people and focuses attention
Gives meaning to work
Establishes a standard of excellence and integrity
Steps for Creating a Vision
Target a vision for a desired future Co‐create the vision Identify strengths Write a first draft Solicit feedback and create the final vision statement Share the vision widely
Mission
Organization’s core purpose and reason for existence
• Provides a basis for creating the vision • Parts:
– Core values – Core purpose
“Noble Purpose”
Source: Based on Nikos Mourkogiannis, Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); and Nikos Mourkogiannis, “The Realist’s Guide to Moral Purpose,” strategy + business Issue 41 (Winter 2005), pp. 42–53
“The main thing is the keep the main thing, the main thing.”
‐ Stephen R. Covey
Communicate Purpose
“Stories of identity—narratives that help individuals think about who they are, where they come from, and where they are headed—constitute the single most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.
A key—perhaps the key—to leadership is the effective communication of a story.”
‐ Howard Gardner, Harvard Psychologist
Famous “Main Things”
“Be all you can be”
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste”
“We bring good things to life”
“It takes a lickin’ but keeps on tickin’
“The ultimate driving machine”
“When you care enough to send the very best”
“Can you hear me now?”
Your Life’s Vision?
Your Life’s Vision
“Control YOUR Destiny of Someone Else Will”
Complete:
Leader’s Self‐Insight 13.1
Self‐Assessment “My Personal Vision”
VIDEO
“Define Your Purpose”
‐ John Demartini
15 BIG THINGS I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE
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