Vision actually leads the leader. I provides a target and lights the fire within to propel him forward. Visions are not mystical. They draw from past experiences and people around the leader who is casting the vision. A good vision also meets other people’s needs and adds value to them. If your vision does not serve others, its probably too small and will not provide any motivational value.
A sound vision acts like a magnet and attracts challenges and unites people. The more challenging the vision the harder people will work to achieve it. Quote Edwin Land, the founder of Poleriod. “The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in winners.”
Anther technique to use is your listening skills. First listen carefully to your inner voice. Think about what you would like to see change in the world around you. The are several ways to improve your vision. Measure yourself, and do a gut check, and ask God or a higher power to help you.
Finally two more quotes that may help define a good vision.
There is…. no future other that as we will it to be. If we conceive of a future state as desirable, we tend to orient ourselves toward it and to initiate the courses of action necessary to its attainment. (McHale, 1969)
To grasp and hold a vision, to fix it in your senses, that is the very essence, I believe, of succdssful leadership. Not only on the movie set, where I learned it, but everywhere. (Ronald Reagon, May 31, 1988)
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