Visionary Leadership Needed by All Managers

Vision and leadership will be the requisites for corporate survival in the 21st century. A model was developed that shows the components and elements of visionary leadership. The model is best viewed in pairs: 1. strategic mission-managing change, 2. continuous improvement-innovative culture, and 3. cooperative performance-innovation. Visionary leaders must understand that their role is to drive and manage change. They must be able to nurture a continuous improvement mentality using a process-oriented management methodology that reinforces employee efforts to maximize results. In addition, visionary leaders must understand that results are necessary to survive in a capitalistic global market, and they must set realistic expectations to make employees winners. These leaders also must be able to accomplish the integration and near perfection of all functions to reduce invention to market cycle times, produce near-perfect quality, and be cost competitive. … celý popis

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Publikováno v

Industrial management (Des Plaines) Ročník 33; číslo 4; s. 2

Hlavní autoři

Fechter, William F, Horowitz, Renee B

Typ dokumentu

Magazine Article

Jazyk dokumentu

English

Vydáno

Norcross Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) 01. 07. 1991

Témata

21st century

Competitive advantage

Corporate culture

Corporate growth

Creativity

Employees

Empowerment

Globalization

Innovations

Job enrichment

Layoffs

Leadership

Managers

Mission statements

Quality circles

Strategic planning

Success

United States > US

ISSN

0019-8471