With this month’s focus on Planning the Future, a critical piece is Vision. At work, we’ve focused a lot on understanding organization purpose and leveraged Simon Sinek’s famous TED Talk on “Start With Why.”
As Dr. Ed Stetzer of Lifeway Research put it, “Casting vision is one thing, but vision without the ability to back it up ultimately becomes a pipe dream.”
Vision gathers people together for a common purpose so they might be focused on something greater than themselves. Shawn Lovejoy has identified one of the biggest challenges any leader faces: how to gather people around a vision and stay true to that vision.
Click here for my summary of Lovejoy’s Be Mean About the Vision: Preserving and Protecting What Matters