Visionary Leadership: What, Why, and How

This study examines how principals practiced visionary leadership with all its dynamics. We studied what, why, and how visionary leadership emerges. This research used a literature review from selected articles. This research examined the leadership of principals from the visionary leadership studies domain. The journal articles, which are reviewed, are from which have functioned to become as major outlets for visionary leadership research by principals and in a wider area within the scope of education to gain awareness of the increasing need for visionary leader importance in some of the research findings in the field. The authors concluded that (1) visionary leadership is leadership behavior that has personal characteristics and the ability to see holistically to create, articulate, interpret, imagine, and communicate, reinterpret school goals to followers to achieve school goals as a form of school anticipation of changes in the future. (2) visionary leadership is enlightening, therefore something good should be done properly as well as action a complete human being as a human being with its human values, and (3) visionary leadership throughout each country tailored to such characteristics as ideological, political, economic, social, and cultural respectively aspects.