Effective leadership is one where the leader makes every attempt to understand people’s paradigms. If a leader’s task is too assure that people accept their vision, then they must understand all the different perspectives that people have within them. People’s paradigms are based on their experiences and backgrounds and many may not be something a leader has lived. Without the communication with team members on their lives and history, a leader cannot begin to understand their paradigm. People love to tell you who they are and what there life entails. Embrace them, listen, and mentally walk in their shoes. After you take their paradigm into you inner self you can then develop a workplace that they fit into and then accept your vision. Once the vision is accepted and agreed, the strategic plan becomes effective. You will be aware of your employee’s strengths and weaknesses and then you can make their weaknesses into strengths and harvest their strengths. Once your employees realize how capable they are, their performance will become heighten and your business will grow exponentially. For years corporate America has shunned relationships with employees and we have distanced them from the corporate management. Other culture’s have been successful at this concept and have evolved beyond our performance. Reach out, embrace and understand employees and you will develop a self-empowered, self-directed workforce that over achieves.