Bonnie Hagemann - Leading with Vision: The Leaders Blueprint for Creating a Compelling Vision and Engaging the Workforce

PRAISE FOR LEADING WITH VISION

Enlisting others in a shared vision is the skill that most distinguishes leaders from individual contributors. Its also the most difficult to master, and as Bonnie Hagemann, Simon Vetter, and John Maketa make clear in Leading with Vision, its the competency thats most lacking in the next generation of leaders. Thats precisely why all leaders must read their new book and, most importantly, put it to use immediately. Backed by solid evidence, illustrated with compelling examples, and supported by practical applications, Leading with Vision is timely and essential reading. It will enable you to make the emotional connection that is absolutely necessary in engaging todays workforce.

Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge and the Deans Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

Its rare that a book combines genuine insights, practical advice, and compelling examples as superbly as Leading with Vision. Highly recommended as a guide for leaders seeking to inspire their organizations with a genuine, authentic vision.

David B. Peterson, Ph.D., Director of Executive Coaching & Leadership at Google, Author of Leader as Coach and Development FIRST.

Regardless of level or title, this book is an essential guide for leaders who are committed to creating a new mindset at work, empowering their people and driving positive impact in their organizations.

Randy Holloway, Director Cloud + Enterprise Solutions, Microsoft

The perfect antidote for the current generational angst about Millennials. Through their research, the authors demonstrate that leadership can no longer be expressed through a father knows best approachproper leadership entails an engrossing corporate vision that motivates employees, elevates their work and encourages a bond with their organization. This is also what we need to keep bright young women from leaving corporate jobs in droves, especially in STEM areas. Timely and indispensable.

Saniye Glser Corat, Director, Division for Gender Equality, Office of Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), France

Leading with Vision shows leaders how to attain full engagement from the next generation of workers who are seeking an emotional connection to the work they do. And it tells the stories of many leaders who have successfully done so.

Maureen McDonald, Former Vice President Global Talent Management, Dell

Leading is not easy in the best of timesand especially not in our current business environment, rife as it is with uncertainty, volatility and complexity. Leading with Vision is a lighthouse in that storm, filled with wise counsel for leaders who seek to engage and inspire their people.

Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach and New York Times-bestselling author, ranked the number one leadership thinker in the world by Thinkers50

Leading with Vision examines the challenges leaders face in engaging Millennials, which will be a majority of the workforce in 2025. The book highlights and discusses the importance of creating an emotional connection with this new workforce to get their full commitment, passion, and performance.

Khaled El-Maleh, Ph.D., Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm

There is something here very much worth exploring... deeply. From the conceptual to current, real life business examples, to actionable questions and exercises, Leading with Vision takes readers on an authentic approach to focusing on the real driver of successthe factor behind the numbersthe corporations people! Research and theory are matched with compelling business examples and actionable processes that will allow todays leader to focus on creating the connectedness that today and the futures workforce so crave. The business applications are real and the reading a joy as Hagemann et al seek to drag modern day leaders out of the fog in order to help create a workplace where todays generations are willing to take the stairs, two at a time!

Julie Laulis, CEO, Cable One, Inc.

Creating a compelling vision that inspires people is not a simple task yet it is a powerful tool that impacts long term company performance. Leading with Vision provides a blueprint to help leaders create, articulate and deliver a compelling vision that will endure.

Frances Hesselbein, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, named one of the Worlds 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune

A refreshing, evidence-based exploration into the power of a compelling visionan often overlooked, but critical component of leading any organization!

Michael Traub, CEO Serta Simmons Bedding

This book is a comprehensive guide for all leaders who want to improve their leadership capabilities towards becoming visionary leaders. Its essential for being and staying successful in an ever changing business world.

Martin Knobloch, CEO Northern Europe BSH Home Appliances

Creating a vision can be a highly inspiring and creative process within the company. This book shows how to achieve great results by involving employees in a bottom-up process without defining or even knowing the outcome.

Stephan Haessig, Head High Networth Individual Clients UBS

Reaching far beyond the recognition that todays leader needs to become the promoter of a meaningful and purpose-led culture, this change handbook explains, through real-life examples, exactly how that can be achieved.

Dr. Laurence S. Lyons, former Director of Research of the Future Work Forum at Henley Business School, co-author of Creating Tomorrows Organization, and founding editor of Coaching for Leadership

Leading with Vision can help you transform from being a leader who leads by numbers to one who truly leads by engaging employees with a clear, powerful, effective and inspiring vision, and then casting your employees as important players in that vision.

Joel Garfinkle, author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level

This a great bookessential to enterprise agility, as part of translating agile strategy and agile execution into traction, and avoiding wheel$pin.

Mike Richardson, author, Wheel$pin: The Agile Executives Manifesto

Its not enough to run a profitable business anymore. If you want to have your company matter, attract top talent and be a player, you are going to need to ensure your organization is purpose-driven. Leading with Vision will show you how.

Tara Uzra Dawood, President, LADIESFUND & Educate a Girl - Pakistan

The authors of Leading with Vision use their experience, research, and client case studies to explain why connecting on an emotional level is the key to engaging the workforce of the future. If youre looking for ideas on how to do that, this book will get you started.

Scott Eblin, best-selling author, global speaker and executive coach

Leading todays workforce requires more than strategy and goals and financial success. Todays leaders have to be visionary and they must inspire the workforce to engage around the vision. It is not easy connecting vision to strategy to execution of goals. Leading with Vision is exactly what is needed for this environment. This book gives us both the why and the how of creating a compelling vision. Its a must read for leaders!

Tom Edwards, VP and GM Air Systems, Johnson Controls

By Bonnie Hagemann, Simon Vetter, and John Maketa