Leadership can be thought
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. Edwin H Friedman
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Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. Edwin H Friedman
Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness. Friedrich Nietzsche
Tell me what your vision of the future and I will tell you what you are. Fred Polak
I’ve often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter. Desmond Tutu
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don’t get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans – you know the answer before I say it – that’s not good. Dennis Miller
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future Daniel J. Boorstin
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past. Daisaku Ikeda
Because the utopian’s worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to social progress. Progress is work. People need to build things and sacrifice and have a harder life for things to get better. On its own, I don’t think even the most brilliant critique … Read more
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. Benjamin Franklin
Let’s assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition? Barbara Marx Hubbard