Vision in leadership
My comment this week concerns leadership, which in practice can and does face adversity in pursuing a course which may be unpopular to some. I am reminded of this as I follow the course of the historic attempts to revamp our national healthcare system. From my perspective, our national leader, President Obama, is taking a true leader role in presenting broad principles from which he is expecting the congress to debate, study, revise and fulfill their role to follow the leader by coming up with responsible legislation. The President, as leader, has taken on the responsibility of providing the vision for his team to examine and follow. I am sure he is providing covert persuasion of some sort, after all this is politics in action; however, in looking at how one faces adversity and comes out with a result that is impactful and in line with the original vision, true leadership is being practiced.
Is it not the role of leadership to provide the vision and not the details for the populace or an underling group of people to follow? Is it not the essence of leadership and team work to see that a vision is pursued through debate, study, revisions, all of which keep the vision in perspective to fulfill?
Is not this debate, etc. meant to come up with a product/result that is far better for the populace or organization than what might have originally been envisioned?
Reflecting back on an earlier post involving the carrot, egg and coffee bean, in the case of healthcare reform, is the end result going to be an aromatic cup of coffee? I know this is treading on your political viewpoint as to whether coffee, a hard- boiled egg or a limp carrot will result; but, give it some thought in terms of leadership in general? Is not a vision provided by the leader and refined by the team being accomplished?
What are your thoughts?
