The Financial Times Guide to Leadership

9

Building your vision

‘Vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.’

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard Business School

This chapter covers:

• the differences between ideas, mission, strategy and vision
• the key elements to keep in mind when building your vision
• why and how innovation fits into the vision building process
• the key criteria for unleashing innovation – both in you and in your team members.

The case of the State of Singapore

In less than three decades, the State of Singapore moved from being a developing country to the emerging financial power in Asia. From mosquito-ridden island, just about leaving behind its colonial past, with no proven model ...