CHAPTER 3
FIRST ROLE: INSPIRING A VISION
[The people you lead] want to know what the mission is, what you want them to achieve, what the purpose of our operation is. And you, as a leader, have the responsibility to give your followers that sense of purpose, that passion, that intensity. Leaders who are not intense in their beliefs will not cause followers to be intense in their following, so leaders have to be passionate; they have to be intense.
—Colin Powell
WHAT IS VISION?
Once upon a time in the Middle Ages, a traveler was walking through a village when he came across a man carving stone. Intrigued by the situation, the traveler asked, ...
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