Visionary Leadership

Visionary Leadership: Empowering Schools through Capacity Building, Accountability, Relationships, and Systems offers a transformative roadmap for educational leaders, igniting the potential for impactful, lasting change in schools and districts. Drawing from his extensive experience, Dr. Christophor J. Galloway introduces the CARS leadership framework. This powerful, research-backed model helps leaders build capacity, foster accountability, strengthen relationships, and implement sustainable systems for success. This book goes beyond theory, providing practical strategies and real-world ...

We all know a visionary leader when we see one. They're bold and prophetic and at the same time pragmatic. They don't just promote change - they drive it, while inspiring and mobilizing others to do the same. Visionaries like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos possess a host of innate qualities that make them extraordinary, but what truly sets them apart is their ability to turn vision into action. Here, Innosight's Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz introduce a new way of thinking and managing, called "future-back", that enables any manager to become a practical visionary.

Best-selling author Laurie Beth Jones brings you the ultimate guide to transforming your team and sparking inspiration in your business. In Jesus, CEO, Jones compares Jesus to a CEO who turned a disorganized "staff" of 12 into a thriving, long-lasting enterprise. With the 25th anniversary edition of Jesus, CEO, Jones revises and updates her original modernized guidance, ensuring that everyone can continue to apply the ancient wisdom pulled straight from the Bible.

Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.

Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s.

Less than 50,000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the greatest riddle in human history," all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers. In Visionary, Graham Hancock sets out to investigate this mysterious "before-and-after moment" and to discover the truth about the influences that gave birth to modern human mind.

Empowerment and Illumination for Visionary Leaders Awaking, arousing and provoking liberators, reformers, pioneers and visionary leaders to be different and make a difference in their world. Silence the noisy negatives and move past the naysayers to do something extraordinary and be all you can be in the earth! Transcend labels to live authentically, discover your mission, give place to your voice and lead with vision. You were born an original. Stop living like a copy. Love unconditionally, live wholeheartedly, and impact society without apology. Be empowered to go further and faster to ...

Leadership guru and renowned professional speaker Robin Sharma reveals a remarkable step-by-step system that will restore trust, commitment, and spirit within your organization while transforming the way you think, feel, and live in the process. With masterful insight and brilliant simplicity, Robin Sharma has distilled some of the most powerful wisdom available for both professional and personal leadership into eight immensely practical lessons that leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs can immediately apply to send morale and productivity soaring.

We know you have a lot going on in your life. It can be hard to find time to plan and look to the future. This book uses a short, simple, and practical approach to understanding what you want and how to get there. This doesn't mean that what you want will magically appear. The process in this book works by getting you more focused and aware of resources and opportunities to have the life you desire.

Unlock the transformative power of Christian disciplines with Spiritual Disciplines: A Journey into Spiritual Growth. This insightful guide explores ten essential practices that nurture a closer relationship with God, strengthen spiritual resilience, and enrich daily living. Discover the power of: Prayer: Deepen your communication with God and find peace in His presence. Bible Study: Gain wisdom and spiritual nourishment through Scripture. Fasting: Experience renewal and heightened focus. Worship: Engage in worship that honors God and unifies the community. Service: Serve others with love ...

Every successful business is based on a vision. In this presentation, Marc Allen shares his secrets for envisioning and creating success. He helps you to understand how to build a truly visionary business - one which supports its employees, its community, and the environment. This engaging guide presents 25 practical, concrete principles for creating your visionary business. Visionary Business will teach you how to manage by goals rather than by crisis, use your business plan and mission statement as visionary tools, recognize the benefits within adversity, plan your work and work your plan, and much more.

Using a compelling novel format, the audiobook demonstrates how to apply lean thinking in a healthcare setting. It illustrates the situations, characters, and plant politics you will most likely face as you progress through your lean healthcare journey. As the story unfolds, you will discover the way of thinking and behavioral changes required to implement proven Toyota Production System (TPS) methods, tools, and thinking in healthcare.

Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture-even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope looks back to the original 1993 text and forward into the future of racial understanding and healing in our current century.

A Script For Aspiring Women Leaders: 5 Keys To Success Women, let’s face it, you are awesome, and you have unique gifts and skills that define you as a leader. Yet the current society and organizations show a shortage of women leaders with the numbers declining the higher up the leadership ladder. This needs to change for the sake of each organization's long-term success. Statistics demonstrate that organizations that build a diverse leadership team are 16% more likely to succeed against others in their industry. Women provide balance to strategy, planning, and decision-making that move ...

With magazines such as Computerworld, PCWorld, and Macworld, Patrick McGovern's company, International Data Group (IDG), quickly became a global powerhouse with information technology publications in nearly 100 countries. The story of IDG's astonishing success has been a source of inspiration for entrepreneurs all around the world. Future Forward shows you how to apply McGovern's principles to your own organization.

Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World: Thriving in the New VUCA Context is the thoughtful analysis of nine expert authors from around the globe who put VUCA under the microscope and take the listener on a journey that looks at VUCA from a number of different leadership perspectives. Through their research and writing these nine authors seek to provide sense-making and insights that are combined with practical tips and frameworks to help leadership embrace this new VUCA context and learn how to thrive within it.

While most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black. But that didn’t stop him from becoming the first blind person to graduate from the Harvard Business School leadership program and climbing the corporate ladder as a successful finance/sales executive. With determination, ambition, and drive, Chad created what Oracle said would be impossible. He gave millions of people the ability to earn a living by becoming the first to create customer relationship software for the visually impaired.

Mary O’Sullivan is throwing down the gauntlet by saying it’s beyond time for today’s leaders to throw out the “chieftain commands all” mentality and embrace 21st-century thinking. When this happens, leadership can create great companies with great cultures that hire and guide great employees—who then create great results.

Arianna Huffington is one of the world's most prominent business leaders in media. As cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, she built the first internet newspaper, which eclipsed the traffic of the New York Times and won the Pulitzer Prize. This concise but richly detailed biography provides an overview of Huffington's life and career, chronicling her journey from Athens to London, New York, Washington and California, across seven decades.

The most successful, disruptive companies are propelled forward by mandate-driven leaders. These leaders are inspired by a compelling belief, idea, strategy or tactic. Through their willpower, organizations are thrust into the future. The mandate-driven leadership model is the hallmark of visionaries who have changed entire industries and sustained consistent innovation in their own companies. The Power of Mandate reveals what it takes to be an effective leader in today's disruptive business environment.