Strategic Vision: A Leader and a Process

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of strategic vision formulation in general and in the U.S. Army, to suggest some areas in which the Army excels, and to recommend improvements in the Army processes which contribute to vision creation. In order to examine the process of formulating strategic vision, there is discussion of vision and of the visionary leader. This is because there are conflicting views about what vision is and is not and there is no established description of either the attributes of the visionary leader or the degree to which a leader personally must be visionary in order to create a strategic vision for an institution. The U.S. Army is one of those optimistic institutions in which it is widely believed that processes can be implaced to compensate for variations in the personal capacities of its leaders. This works well in many areas of leaders's responsibilities. It is needed also in vision creation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 1991
Accession Number
ADA238242

Entities

People

  • Claudia J. Kennedy

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Classification
  • Congress
  • Delphi Method
  • Doctrine
  • Force Structure
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Security
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Theoretical Analysis.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.