Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

You can't create a shared vision without having your own vision first. It's inappropriate for us to be dependent on others or independent from them. Rather, we need to have relationships of interdependence. Bonni mentioned a clip from the movie Spartacus which captures the power of interdependence:

Two key elements of a shared vision:

The people involved have a shared picture of what the future looks like.

Everyone is committed to achieving the work and working towards it together.

We discussed four steps for leaders to take when creating a shared vision:

A few books that we mentioned on this episode:

The Fifth Discipline* by Peter Senge

The Leadership Challenge* by James Kouzes and Barry Posner

We also mentioned Linda Krall, our favorite strategic illustrator

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