When all is said and done, there is one dominant responsibility that leaders have above all else. To ignore it imperils their organizations and their own careers. Joel Barker To examine that responsibility, we need to start with a definition of "a leader." Let me offer one for your consideration: A leader is someone you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself. It is as simple as that. If people follow …showed first 75 words of 520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 520 total…role of his key people was "to recognize the future." Haveed Riaz of Citibank said that the most important role of leaders was "to secure the future." I have said it is "to find the future." In truth, a leader's role is probably a mixture of all three: to find, recognize and secure the future. If you do that, you have done the most important part of your job as the leader of your organization.