I. adjective
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■ NOUN
experience
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Now words become means to mediate a visionary experience of love and enlarge understanding.
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The immediacy of these visionary experiences endows them with a high degree of intensity, but also renders them fleeting and transient.
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In Section 2 we cover the personal qualities that are evident in visionary leaders and successful change makers.
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No one would argue he is a visionary leader , that he is an outsider or a populist.
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In addition to language, the visionary leader can use a range of dramaturgical devices capable of stimulating and arousing responses.
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Ironically, the visionary leader who, through similar inconsistency, is labelled a good actor, risks losing credibility.
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The visionary leader is a transformer, cutting through complex problems that leave other strategists stranded.
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Iacocca is currently in danger of losing his status as a visionary leader , Carlzon has likewise run into difficulties.
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For example, one is hard-pressed to find an example of a visionary leader who was not also adept at using language.
leadership
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This is captured dramatically in this century's most infamous example of visionary leadership .
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Despite the rarity of visionary leadership in recent years, Earth has been blessed with a host of true visionaries.
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First, we assume that visionary leadership is a dynamic, interactive phenomenon, as opposed to a unidirectional process.
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Ruthless management may succeed in holding change at bay for a while, but only visionary leadership will succeed over time.
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In this sense visionary leadership is distinct from theatre.
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For this reason we equate visionary leadership not just with an idea perse, but with the communicated idea.
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Here we are concerned with the profoundly symbolic nature of visionary leadership .
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An alternative image of visionary leadership might be that of a drama.
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Fly away on a visionary cloud.
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He identifies himself either with the visionary object or with its witness, the visionary subject.
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More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years.
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Schwab is reengineering its own business in one visionary leap that will require six years to execute.
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The visionary leader is a transformer, cutting through complex problems that leave other strategists stranded.
II. noun
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And a few visionaries are also charting ways to fit the automobile into a more livable lifestyle.
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Clinton, sweeping smoothly over the recent nastiness, this week presented his friend as the visionary of a new Middle East.
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Guided by an unlikely visionary named Walt, the artists at Disney did more than create an enduring new art form.
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Gutzon Borglum was an ambitious man, to his own mind a visionary .
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He is not a visionary , unlike those coastal intellectuals.
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Meanwhile, a few visionaries are assessing prospects for still more extensive computerised information services.
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She taught him what it meant to be a citizen, to be a visionary and to be a Catholic.
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The new century presented challenges that visionaries thought the old forms could not meet.