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  • 1.  Vision - Visionsssss

    Posted 01-29-1998 10:44
    Jack Ring <jring@AMUG.ORG> wrote on subject: Visionsssss
    <<
    Many successful leaders I know do not reveal their grand vision all at once
    for fear of scaring or losing the troops. Rather, they sort out some
    interim situations to be achieved and describe one or more of those in
    order to see who buys in to what. However, all the successful ones
    thoroughly believe their vision is practical and achievable. Others I have
    known have not found it necessary to apply that test and have burned up a
    lot of money and a lot of perfectly good human beings in the process.
    >>

    It is not necessarily fear of the person with vision - though knowing
    about the loss of support when the whole vision becomes known is most
    definitely a good reason to reveal only part of it.

    Handling a vision / or a new, strange, unbelievable idea have common
    characteristics: It must run through what we call in Systematic Innovation
    the Sensitizing Process. A skillful way to aquaint someone with an
    unfamiliar situation which may be perceived as dangerous. I don't deal
    with this process on the web page. Nevertheless, there is a related matter
    refering to the The Vicious Circle of error generation on page /mind01.htm.

    (Vision is a powerful guide line, or orientation mark.
    A vision is hardly without error, and does not automatically exclude traps.)

    Implementation hurdles and effects perceived as negative by affected people
    induce the fear in them - resulting in NO! as an answer.
    Removing unconstructive fear is the goal of the Sensitizing Process tool.

    Emil Zahner - currently in Florida - personal contacts welcome.
    Morphological Institute Canada
    Website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/canmor/index19.htm
    Referral: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/canmor/mind01.htm
    email: canmor@compuserve.com