Question

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Leadership guru Warren Bennis said, “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” What does this statement mean to you?

For me, to lead means advancing from one point to another, with the second point offering some degree of enhancement. I see leadership as simply the addition of new elements, people in this case. Strong leaders not only can visual what the second point will look like but also articulate its benefits well enough to influence others to follow. Along the way, a strong leader will guide the group through adversity, solve issues that may arise, and act as an ongoing source for motivation. Once the task at hand has been achieved, the leader's vision has effectively come to fruition. In my opinion, Warren Bennis is simply defining a leader as someone who can add substance and shape to something that had only ever been a thought, developing the skills and abilities of others along the way.

Answer 1

Leadership is an art by way of which a leader can mould, direct and inspire others with a vision to create either something new or to realize the goals in more efficient and smoother way. Leaders can create a climate of trust and facilitate relationships among people in a work team by establishing certain set of Leadership Values in the Organization that regards to both ethics and job activities. Also, there should be a clear vision of leadership in order to foster the climate of trust and relationship. Accordingly, the vision of the leadership system could be to bring about a culture change by integrating the law and technology into leadership practices in order to positively impact the changes in the approaches that can be thus used to bring about the desired change. Certain leaders have a definite vision that is expressed to the followers as an idealized goal—that proposes a future better than the status quo; and is able to clarify the importance of the vision in terms that are understandable to others. In this way, leadership is the capacity that helps the vision to get translated into reality.