Circling Back

Stosh has another great post about vision, leadership and communication. I encourage you to check it out. Here is a sample.

"Virtually everyone agrees that vision is an essential component of leadership. Call it forward looking, inspirational or vivid – the message is the same. Leaders must concern themselves with what’s next.

In order to accomplish this, leaders have to scout the territory. When pioneers were exploring this country, they had scouts, parties who would go before the rest of the convoy to determine the best way forward and forecast danger when it lay ahead.

That, however, was not the most essential part. The absolutely indispensible action was circling back to inform and brief the rest of the party before riding on again.

Failing to “circle back” causes many leaders to fail."

Have you circled back lately? Are you sharing what you've seen with your team? It is one thing to have a vision and another to communicate it to your people. Effective leaders do both.