Most people especially entrepreneurs or small business owners are so busy dealing with yesterday and today, they fail to plan for tomorrow. Being able to envision your future is the first step and one that is often overlooked and undervalued. The future vision for your business is necessary and essential to achieve not only small business success in building your business, but balance both personally and professionally.
The act of visioning is not easy. Wallace D. Wattles recognized the tremendous effort of Importance Of Leadership Skills Covey Leadership Center when he wrote:
"There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world."
Keeping sustained and consecutive thought is one of the greatest ongoing challenges especially when working through a disciplined strategic planning process.
Thoreau also perceived why we need to stop our own personal definitions of insanity and crystallize the vision for our lives when he penned these often quoted words:
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Vision is also necessary from a leadership perspective. In the book, Fail-Safe Leadership: Straight Talk About Correcting the Leadership Challenges In Your Organization by Linda Martin and Dr. David G. Mutchler, the authors from their years of working with organizations from small businesses to Fortune 500 firms believed that Vision is part of Level III alignment. The Vision is the first step in securing buy-in from everyone within the organization beginning at the Executive Level.
If the Executive Level Team doesn't know where it's going, how can the rest of the organization follow?
So take the time to crystallize YOUR vision for YOUR company. Again, this may change in a few years depending upon your industry and your business.
As the leader of your business whether you are a one person business, 10 person or 100 to 1,000 plus person company, remember your role as the Leader, President Of The Senate Pro Tempore to Warren G. Bennis, is:
capacity to translate vision into reality
Leanne Hoagland-Smith quickly doubles results for her clients from individuals (small businesses owners, entrepreneurs and young people) to large organizations by creating executable strategic action plans along with the necessary business skills to pull it off. By closing the gap between today's unsatisfactory performance to tomorrow's goals, limited resources are maximized with waste including time being reduced. Please feel free to contact Leanne at 219.759.5601 or visit http://www.processspecialist.com/ and explore how she can help you.
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