1. Agenda Leadership News from YOU (Distinguished Leader)
General Questions and Answers
Chapter 5 Discussion
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2. Envision the Future
Visions are about possibilities, about desired futures.
Stories from the chapter … What did you like?
Imagine the Possibilities
Reflect on your Past (Janus Effect)
Attend to the present
Prospect the Future
Feel your passion (Intrinsic motivation)
Find a common purpose
Listen deeply to others (commitment)
Commit to cause
Envision the Future
Picture it

3. Strategic Visioning Take back the RED
Henry Mintzberg (1994) debunks popular approaches to strategic planning as overly analytic; he hints: in order to be effective, he claims, strategy should involve intuitive glimpses of possibility
The anticipatory principle--the development of imaginative capacity to form possible images of future states--suggests that perhaps the most potent vehicle for transforming human systems is our ongoing projection of a future image (vision)
Take back the RED

4. Envision the future of business
Find a “new” idea that is out there in the world.
Think first about the past
Determine what the future will be like
Determine how your idea will fit into the future
Prepare a short presentation
Become a futurist.

5. Growth Opportunity Share your vision of the future with the class.
Present Like a Pro!!

7. Is this argument RSA?
My friend and I are starting a new company and we want to become rich. A study has found that tall people make more money than shorter people. To save money in our organization, we have decided to hire only people who are shorter than average height.

8. Next Day Chapter 6 – Enlist Others
Task: Draw from the techniques in the chapter and ‘enlist’ your friend to do something between now and next class!