Courageous Visions: How to Unleash Passionate Energy in Your Life and Your Organization

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
• Published by: Discover Press April 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0974200018
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0974200019
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Review
A practical guide to realizing full potential. She coaxes the vision using a step-by-step coaching process. -- Sushma Sharma, Resonate Consulting April, 2004

A rich blueprint of ideas, theories, techniques and tools which challenge individuals and organizations to forge courageous visions. -- Ken Hultman, author of Making Change Irresistible

An outstanding book. Courageous Visions is a rare and valuable combination of practical advice, entertaining and easy reading, and inspiration. -- Jim Clemmer, author of The Leaders Digest

Engaging and practical, demonstrates how to engage people in creating powerful visions, and realize those visions at home and work. -- Filomena Warihay, PhD, President, Take Charge Consultants

Inspired work! For me it was like coming home. The most important thing is helping to bring change into reality. -- Diane Dawson, Cornell University

Thoroughly researched and documented material has depth as well as inspiration. Courageous Visions is a winner. -- Tony Alessandra, PhD, author of The Platinum Rule

Product Description
We’ve been conditioned to think that the CEO is the visionary who provides clear direction, but hero-leaders who make the headlines and become celebrities don’t always have the skills to awaken the passion of those they lead. Attacking the myth that visions should come from the lone leader, Courageous Visions provides tools and resources that inspire employees at all levels to contribute and expand on the vision. The author, Martha Lasley, bases her book on the premise that personal visions are the spark for greater organizational visions.

From her experience with executive coaching, leadership development and team building, she shares anecdotes and practical activities for awakening passionate energy in the work place. Since all change begins with the individual, she offers unconventional ways to explore personal visions and turn them into reality.

Lasley envisions a "world full of people who love their work, love the people in their lives, and passionately work to create a better future." Her personal philosophy is that people who support each other’s hopes and dreams create synergy and unleash the power of an organization.

Although full of anecdotes about famous leaders, Lasley also shares inspirational stories about ordinary people with colorful visions, from ten-year-old Caylin who sells sunflowers to help the homeless, to Dominick, a plant manager whose team surprises him with gag gifts. She’s at her best when she’s telling personal stories about leaders who’ve stepped out of their comfort zone and experimented with new ways to build high-functioning teams of visionaries.

Reader Reviews
Written by an expert executive coach, Courageous Visions: How to Unleash Passionate Energy in Your Life and Your Organization is an instructional concerning the art and skill of visioning and learning to unleash one's passion and energy to better fuel leadership in business and personal life. From how to share one's vision in an inspirational manner, to laying plans for the future based on what is most urgently needed, to fostering transformation in response to changing situations that demand adaptibility, and much more, Courageous Visions is a powerful, can-do testimony. Practical advice in plain terms and a positive emotional drive fuel this first-rate guide.