Achieved Strategies

In all our eagerness to dissect the importance and actions of leadership, it’s no surprise its importance seems to trump that of the organization.  The reality, however, is that leadership is on one level a means to help the organization remain congruent with its purpose.

A business is the means to provide a solution to its customers’ needs.  And to remain focused on that simple agreement, a business must have a definition – its vision.  That vision defines the purpose of the company.

The vision is the ultimate guide for leaders to keep the business on target to fulfill its purpose.  We, however, lose sight of this basic precept.  We become enamored with the brilliance, the risks, the politics, the strategies great leaders pull off with their followers.  We confuse this to be most important.

But let us not forget that leadership is unequal in importance to the organization.

It is what initially infuses meaning into leaders actions and words.  And as the vision of the organization shifts, the needed leadership style must also shift.

The two, the business and leadership, are inextricably bound together.  Yet part of the foundation of the business is its purpose.  And the business’s purpose is the originating spark to guide leaders.

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