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The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

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Bill Hybels
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Future
Envisioning
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Strategist
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Organization
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