Steve on Leadership 4

Joshua Owen, former director of the Institute of Administration within the University of New South Wales, said once:

“You can make a difference with visionary leadership. Visionary leaders do not change with the times. They change ahead of the time – indeed they change the times. They know the way, they show the way and they go the way. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Sooner or later the one who wins is the one who says ‘I can’”.

Like many other leaders in Australia, I’ve had the privilege of hearing Joshua speak, and in his guided reflection, taken his legendary ride in the helicopter where he urges us to “rise above the ordinary.”

As Joshua says, you can make a difference with visionary leadership.

Counterfeit “leaders” do not understand the concept of visionary leadership. Real leaders realise that visionary leadership is first and foremost.

As Joshua says, visionary leaders change ahead of the time - they change the times. Visionary leaders do not wait for trends to develop – they create the trends and help shape them!

Joshua told me, “The one who wins is the one who says ‘I can’.” What is required is the will...and the determination to achieve – and dialogue.