1. Envision the future Chapter 5

2. The challenge • The challenge in leadership today is maintaining a vision • Why? Do to all the distractions and lots of external noise • Need leaders who can keep people focused on the two or three things that are most important to them, their unit, their business and their company • Who are they? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeiSXpmMQys • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0OcBbuWC8

3. Envision the future • Leaders must develop the capacity to Envision the future by mastering these essentials • Discover the theme • Imagine the possibilities

4. Discover the theme • The beginning • Leaders have concerns, desires, questions, propositions, arguments, hope, dreams and aspirations – core concepts around which they organize their aspirations and actions. • Leaders begin the process by discovering their own themes • Express your passion – self-exploration / self-creation • If you don’t care deeply for and about something and someone, then how can you expect others to feel any sense of conviction? • Explore you past / pay attention to your experiences • If we don’t see right in front of us is may be because we do not care

5. Imagine the possibilities • Turning a possibility into an inspiring vision is what a leader does • Visions are about hopes, dreams and aspirations • Take pride in being unique • Make images of the future • Look to the future

6. commitment • Think about your past • Determine the “something” you want to do • Write an article about how you’ve made a difference • Write your vision statement • Become a futurist • Test your assumptions