"If you want to build a ship..."

One of the qualities of leadership is the ability to create, communicate and sustain a vision. Helping your people see beyond the simple what of your goals, but the why is incredibly powerful. If you can inspire those who follow you to own your vision, to long for what the goals you set will create for them and others, they will almost always make the extra effort to accomplish whatever you have envisioned. Empowering them to see the vision as their own, something they desire as much as do you, will set your team on a course of unexpected success and fulfillment. Antoine de Saint Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, is quoted as having said, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." When you are the leader, learn how to make the wonders of the sea manifest to each of you followers and they will manifest a magnificent ship to get you all wherever you desire to be.
Until next time...