Vision Album

In the mid-1990s, I was working with some leaders from Iams, the premium pet food company.

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LONDON -- It’s 2025 and Angela Merkel, Europe’s first democratically elected president, is reviewing a crowded agenda for the new session of the increasingly powerful European Parliament.

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don’t much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn’t matter which...

I find that many creative (and not so creative) people confuse the meaning of the two words – vision and trends.  When someone has a vision, they see past the status quo, whereas by the time som...

This is so wrong in at least four ways -- performance-based hiring works much better than this -- and can include these elements --used correctly!

When you make the final hire/don’t hire decision, there are four (4) important things to consider: The results of testing should count for 30 percent; The interview should count for 30 percent; The results of the reference check should …...

The founder of Postal Vision 2020 and Managing Director of the consultancy URSA Major Associates John Callan in his introduction remarked that for the USPS to meet its full potential all stakeholders need heed both a call to reason and action.

Very interesting point about creating "micro-visions."  What's important is that this is a skill leaders must learn.

People are stuck in place, not particularly happy with the way things are, but staying put because they don’t have any better options. It’s a “quit and stay” mentality that has ...

Find out how to craft inspiring vision statements and mission statements.

You want to start a business. So you need a plan, right? No. Not really.

A romp through the weird, scary, awesome future of mobile communications.

We need a high-speed vision for our rail network...

What good are business ideas if you don't have mission, vision, and values to start with? Defining these marks the fine line between success and failure.

The second example in a week of someone being terminated despite having "vision."  One could wonder how clearly the vision was -- obviously not clear enough to work.

J.C. Penney said its president, Michael R. Francis, is leaving the retailer after only eight months on the job. Back in October, J.C. Penney Co. hired Michael Francis away from Target Corp. with great fanfare, saying he had the "vision and courage" to turn around the department store chain.

Although Board of Visitors had privately discussed her removal for months, the move reportedly came as a surprise to University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan.

JS:  Very interesting because of the following part:

"Several academic leaders contend Sullivan had a clear vision for the university. Her top priority was to foster “the premier undergraduate experience in the United States,” along with top-ranked professional programs, and the capacity to hire and keep the best scholars for the faculty, Simon said. She envisioned a “radical” shift in undergraduate teaching, he said, to stress in-depth and one-on-one interactions for upper-level students, technology, and academic innovation for freshmen and sophomores."

Great leaders think strategically. They can understand and appreciate the current state as well as see possibilities.

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