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By Elayne Fluker | Published December 21, 2011 | Full size is 620 × 480 pixels

Get the buy-in. The ability to communicate a vision and have that vision shared with an organization is one of the fundamentals of effective leadership. "We have seen it over and over again: when you are able to convey to people that they are a part of a team… that organization excels at whatever mission assigned and whatever the vision is for that mission," Gaskin says. "It's about rapidly developing that buy-in, that loyalty, that interdependency that they are a part of a team that has to accomplish the objectives. When you fail to get everybody sure of where they fit in to this, and how everybody is dependent on each other to do their part, then you have kind of a bumpy road."

Get the buy-in.

The ability to communicate a vision and have that vision shared with an…