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Article Critique Student`s Name: Course Title: Instructor: Date Due: "Leadership through vision" Critique In his article "leadership through vision", Kimney proposes leadership through vision as the secret behind organisational success (Kinney, 2007). He analyses how a company by the name ‘All Phase Electric Company` has managed to succeed through visionary leadership. He argues that for an organisation to thrive, it is important that, the leadership vision is clear. The leader of a firm must communicate the vision to all company members to get their cooperation and support in its implementation. The leader is a risk taker who develops goals and goes on to implement them. Visionary leaders rely on tacit knowledge to design plans to guide operations in the organisation (Kinney, 2007). The organisation values interdependency through; appropriate selection and appointment of workers, customer service that is outstanding and an increased market share. A good amount of resources is spent on hiring workers and empowering them through training. Customer feedback is an important aspect in influencing the type of choices made by the visionary leader in the running of the firm. According to Richard, All phase Electric Company`s visionary leaders make choices based on values and devote much of their resources to innovation, human capital and advancing systems that ensure the development of viable projects and programmes (Kinney, 2007). These leaders have the power to influence others` outlook and mind-set to lure them into trusting the decisions made and adopt them for implementation. Visionaries embed themselves into uncertainty, information overload and complexity. They have complex integrative tasks that make them multifunctional and as a result are aware of small bits of each task rather knowing much about a single task. Though I agree with the author about hiring workers and empowering them, I defer with the issue of Visionary leadership. This type of leadership is risky since, it includes putting decision-making process in the hands of one or a few people who rely on tacit knowledge to guide the activities of the firm (Kinney, 2007). Though the workers are empowered, they are subject to implementation of goals of the visionary leader. One great risk is trying to equate power with the leaders` ability to influence change. Secondly, individuals are likely to lose self-control while trying to acquire such power. The presence of visionary leaders tends to affect the performance of managerial leaders. Richard himself recognises the fact that this leadership demands leaders to know a small part of every task rather than knowing all aspects of a single task (Kinney, 2007). Visionary leadership is concerned with adjusting strategies and operations so as to develop long-term goals. This then poses a threat particularly to the achievement of short-term goals. Such a situation calls for some restraint by managerial managers to avoid situations where the organisation is solely focused on future goals (Kinney, 2007).In my opinion; this contradicts the aspect of empowering workers. Workers can be motivated by the fact that their achievement is observed and appreciated in day-to-day activities of the firm. The other concern is the fact that visionary leaders are daring always willing to create wealth at all costs. In doing this, they can often make investments in risky ventures that may result in losses rather than the intended success. Summary Creating vision and strategic direction in organizations requires an informed management team that is capable of integrating various leadership approaches among them visionary leadership and managerial leadership. Managerial leadership is concerned with preservin...