Title: Every person's vision bucket leaks!

I attended last year’s Global Leadership Summit. It was a great conference which gave me a lot of insights into management which can be practiced in my own company.

Bill Hybel lead a session called “From here to there". This session was actually what strategy is all about - taking a company from its current destination to a new destination over a given period of time. Bill said that the most critical part of that journey was not at the start - what he called "here" (starting point) nor was it the “there" point (strategic destination) but it was the journey between "here" and "there". That specific period is the most vulnerable and critical part of the journey. He gave this great piece of advice for practice during this vital part of the journey.

"Every person's vision bucket leaks!" He underlined that it was important for the management to anticipate how the vision bucket can leak. Managers need to fill the vision bucket during this journey. Not once, but over and over again! This has to be done in order to keep up the faith and reach the strategic destination successfully.

I am happy if the people in my organization tell me, "our vision level is at a low level, please call for strategy meetings and refill our buckets". If you don't have these kind of sensors in your organization to warn you when to fill the vision bucket, then you better call for a new strategy meeting and paint the organization's vision as a clear picture for everyone's benefit.

Author : Tor Inge Vasshus

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