Comments on: Vision — Selling and Living the Vision

By: Ellen Feaheny

Ellen Feaheny — Sun, 07 May 2017 20:47:00 +0000

>> “This is your team after they buy into the vision.

Big Red Car: This is an absolutely classic and hilarious analogy – loved it! 🙂 Thanks for the ever running laughs and encouragements!

By: Wes Ramsay

Wes Ramsay — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 00:24:00 +0000

Tell The Boss thanks again…my own stumbling efforts to go in his direction continue to pay off. The point about ‘people want to follow’ is turning out to be true. In my situation, I work with colleagues I’ve admired my whole career, and I’ve learned slowly of late that if I will lead and take care of them, they will follow with enthusiasm. That pack of lions picture is no exaggeration. I don’t even have to be perfect, and they’ll give me the benefit of the doubt anyway. It’s kind of extraordinary.

By: sigmaalgebra

sigmaalgebra — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:26:00 +0000

Yes.

In that pride of lions, looks like there is some polygamy going on there! That huge, mean looking front and center male looks like his approach to leading is to impregnate any females and kill off any competing males! Then the females do nearly all the hunting!

Yup, selling vision and leading are important, not just in business but also parts of politics. E.g., I’ve been surprised at how much time and effort Trump puts into (A) tracking the level of support he is getting from his followers, (B) continuing to sell his vision and maintain the support of his followers, and (C) reporting to his followers the successes, at least weekly and, really, essentially daily. E.g., soon after he entered office, he went out with some rallies again, much like the ones he held during the campaign. For more, he posts on Twitter nearly daily, seems to have at least one good photo-op a day, gives a weekly video review, has about one long, sit down he v one or a few press interviews a week, etc. Net, it looks like his number one effort is just such continuing to sell his vision and maintaining and building his support.

Looks like nearly all he does is listen a lot, think some, delegate nearly everything, sell his vision, and maintain his image, e.g., of gravitas, seriousness, urgency, effectiveness, openness, etc.

Here and from Trump, good lessons; much lower tuition than the school of hard knocks; and not just for politics but for business and more, e.g., leading a family.

Once a guy frustrated with women told me that he regarded women as like a hot air balloon that have to keep pumping up with hot air, essentially continually, or they will leak down, sink, go flat, get really unhappy, and have the relationship fail.

Well, maybe his analogy was a bit extreme, but maybe closer to the truth is that in some cases, in business, politics, women, etc., just have to be selling over and over, even the same vision, nearly all the time. If are not selling the vision quite that often, then at least check to be sure don’t need to.

Lesson: Potentially very valable. Tuition: $0.00.

By: JLM

JLM — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:27:00 +0000

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Every CEO faces the necessity to re-tool their vision for their company. It is perfectly normal, but not every CEO makes it through the fire. Some fail and their companies fail.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/vision-selling-vision/

Here is the road map. Follow it.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com