Visionary Leadership

BURT NANUS is author or coauthor of six books including the best-selling Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge (1985, with Warren Bennis). For many years, he was director of research at the University of Southern California's Leadership Institute and professor of management in the School of Business Administration.

• Foreword. Part One: What Vision Is and Why It Matters. 1. Vision: The Key to Leadership. 2. Where Tomorrow Begins: Finding the Right Vision. Part Two: Developing the Vision. 3. Taking Stock: The Vision Audit. 4. Testing Reality: The Vision Scope. 5. Considering the Possibilities: The Vision Context. 6. Finding Your Way: The Vision Choice. Part Three: Implementing the Vision. 7. Making It Happen: Translating Vision into Reality. 8. Running a Race with No End: The Re-Visioning Process. 9. Developing Visionary Leadership: Securing the Future. Appendix: Visionary Leadership for the Public Sector.

"What makes great leaders great? That's the question Burt Nanusattempts to answer in Visionary Leadership (and does so quite well,by the way). But if you're thinking this is going to be another oneof those nebulous, touchy-feely,here's-the-kind-of-charisma-it-takes-to-get-ahead-in-businessbooks, you're only partly right. Visionary Leadership is all aboutthe one essential component of great leadersnamely, being avisionarybut it's not a theoretical treatise. Nanus writes not onlyof the necessity of a vision to your business' success, but alsohow to develop and sustain that vision.'' "Likely to prove the most important management book of the year.''--Edward Cornish, president, World Future Society "Ideas with vision have power and magic that carry those ideasbeyond the people who create them. Burt Nanus shows us how to findsuch vision.'' --U.S. Senator Bob Graham