How to describe your vision so it leaps off the page
My dad was a pilot, which meant he was always watching the sky with a pilot’s long-range vision. On family road trips, he could see sights his passengers never even glimpsed.
“Did you see that hawk just circle above those trees? It was right over there.”
“Is that a falcon or a crow?…. Oh, it’s gone now.”
“There’s an eagle… Whoops, you missed it. Again”
Visionary leaders have that same gift of farsightedness. And, like my Dad, they can have trouble getting others to see what stands out so …
Three essential elements for communicating your vision to colleagues and investors
It's not just in fairy tales that gifts often come with curses. Like Midas with his golden touch, who ends up turning his daughter into a metallic statue, leaders can possess great strengths that come with hidden dangers. One of those strengths, believe it or not, is their capacity for visioning.
That’s right—your ability to see a blazing path through the conventional to a breakthrough approach or a revolutionary product may actually be a liability. Leaders who are true visionaries see the fu…
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