Leadership lessons: Stop fire fighting, start leading

  • Effective leaders embrace vision over motion
  • Learning how to develop vision is essential to becoming a good leader
  • The critical element for successful change is managing expectations and accountabilities
  • Leaders are typically drawn from the best problem-solvers in an organisation

Moving humming bird-like from issue to issue is no way to run a business; an effective leader needs an overall vision, argues Andrew C. Marshall.

Today’s complex organisations require leaders who embrace vision over motion, change management over meaningless action and issue resolution over fire fighting. Success is not tied to the latest technology or business model. It is the way our leaders see the organisation's future, create a path to realise it, and resolve the issues that impede the way.

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