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Visions must describe the desired longterm future of the organization – a future that typically is not quite achievable, but also not so fantastic as to seem like a ridiculous pipedream. Visioning requires imagination, a mental capacity for synthesis, a trust in intuition, and a deep emotional commitment to that desired future. Visions need to challenge people, evoke feelings that draw people toward wanting to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Vision

Vision moves the enterprise; values stabilize the enterprise. Vision looks to the future, values to the past.

Content: Quotation | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Vision

A vision describes the future – where you are going or where you want to go. Without a clear and comprehensive vision statement, an organization will flounder and pull in different directions. With clear vision, everyone has a unified organizational view of the future and clear direction, enabling people to row in the same direction. But, do people row hard enough and long enough? Do … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Vision

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Vision

Without a vision, one just has the trappings of leadership. A great vision in tandem with the core values shared by both the leadership and the organization is an unparalleled inspiration. Effective leadership is all about internal beliefs that translate into external values.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Leadership, Vision

What’s the easiest way to get rid of emotional tension? You can do it in less than a minute. Just diminish your vision. Revise it so it’s easier to attain – or abandon it altogether. However, when you relieve emotional tension, you also compromise creative tension. We call this the structure of compromise, or the structure of mediocrity. You could explain all the mediocrity in … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Achievement, Vision

The dictionary — which, unlike the computer, is an essential leadership tool — contains multiple definitions of the word mission; the most appropriate here is, “purpose, reason for being.” Vision, by contrast, is “a picture or image of the future we seek to create,” and values articulate how we intend to live as we pursue our mission. Paradoxically, if an organization’s mission is truly motivating … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Vision

It is difficult for them [CEOs and executive groups] to stretch their thinking toward the future. They’re very “grounded,” realistic people. They are drawn towards missions, which describe what an organization does now, rather than vision, which describes why an organization engages in these activities. Visions, therefore, must describe the desired long-term future of the organization-a future that typically is not quite achievable, but not … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Vision

The absence of a vision will doom any strategy — especially a strategy for change. A true vision shapes your hiring, assessment, and promotion of employees, and your behavior toward customers, partners, and investors. It is a more powerful tool for leading an organization than any market analysis or spreadsheet…I invest our resources in vision and values because company culture is inseparable from strategy — … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Vision

Goals are management issues. They deal with rational analysis, planning, measurement, and discipline. Visions are leadership issues. They deal with feelings, energy, ideas, and fantasy. These are not either/or choices — both are needed.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subjects: Leadership, Vision

Either Do Something Very Beautiful or Very Useful
– former mission on the walls of Bell Labs (pre-divestiture)

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Business Rules, Vision

The work you do should be a test of your perceptiveness. All great work becomes the art of seeing (paraphrased).

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Vision, Work

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Vision

Perception follows purpose.

Content: Quotation | Source: LiNE Zine | Subjects: Perception, Vision

When we transcend a paradox there is often a quality of obviousness that produces a shock of recognition. No longer held captive by the old way of thinking, we are liberated to see things we have known all along, but couldn’t assemble into a useful model for action.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Problems / Solutions, Vision

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There’s vision, patience, and execution.

The vision phase is full of excitement, vim, and vigor. Everything looks big and rosy. At that stage, we don’t know what we don’t know. Then you get into the patience stage, and that’s tough. You have to cut out parts of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Business Development, Vision

Visionaries make good things happen. Managers keep bad things from happening. For your company to be successful, you need both. Unfortunately, you rarely find them in a single person.

Content: Quotation | Source: Alliance Technology Ventures | Subjects: Management, Vision