Secrets of Special Ops Leadership by William A. Cohen

Author:William A. Cohen [Cohen, William A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 0814408400
Publisher: AMACOM Books
Published: 2006-08-09T10:00:00+00:00

What Is a Vision?

A vision is an all-encompassing picture of the way you want your organization to look in the future. It is the grand goal that guides all the actions of your organization. Without a vision, your organization is as helpless as a rudderless ship. Seneca’s quotation at the beginning of this chapter is aptly descriptive. Without a vision, you’ll never get “there,” and neither will your organization. Just as Bloody Mary sang in the Rogers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, “You got to have a dream, If you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true?” Bloody Mary was correct. When Martin Luther King declared “I have a dream,” he spelled out a vision that continues to inspire people, in this country and the world, decades after King’s death.

Your vision defines the “there”—the place where you want your team to go, the goal that you want to achieve. This vision must be big enough, important enough, and clear enough to be compelling to your commandos. If your “there” has these qualities and you are committed to it, like John Mosby, you cannot fail. Moreover, those who follow you will break their necks to help you and your organization get “there.”

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