Elaine’s Reviews > Vivid Vision: A Remarkable Tool For Aligning Your Business Around a Shared Vision of the Future > Status Update

and the last bit is on applying this to your personal life. Not wrong, just not what I'm here for.

VV in the hiring process: scare away inappropriate hires that aren't a good fit.

And if you lose people, that's really okay. Hire new, don't spend 2 years trying to convert the old.

Without VV, your customers have to rely on their own imaginations as to what your company will look like in 3 years, which doesn't help you.

(External roll-out -- partner business can scale themselves in response, or at least get excited or even just a better understanding of you, respond accordingly -- better than without.)

Even if the Vision doesn't come true in 3 years, might not have failed. How aligned is the team? Engaged? Clearer on duties? More engagement still boosts growth.

"Can You Imagine?" wall supplements vision. Inspirational image of what the company's future could look like from the little people (not his words). Cross off as completed. (Do want real goals -- our company on the side of a Starbucks cup, our company studied by Harvard Biz.)

Buy in... if we can make THAT happen, we can get the BHAG.

But the Vivid Vision is the singular vision of the org's top official.

Setback: reverse engineering to work on the foundation isn't sexy.

Another: you come back from your retreat and it's back to everyday business. Discouraged. Why you should pull out the doc regularly and read it. And again, manageable pieces leading up to the big goal.

What are you doing?
Making bricks.
Making bricks for this wall.
Making bricks to build a wall in a glorious cathedral for worshiping god.

Vision isn't your business plan, just your destination.

Vision will attract AND repel. Should draw people in, some people repelled (though hopefully not too many).

If everyone LIKES it, no one will love it. If this is the case, you have failed.

Break it out every quarter. It's a marathon!

In Word, highlight green any sentences that have come true since last quarter. Highlight yellow any sentences currently working on.

Break down each sentence: what chronology, what actions necessary to make happen. Shapes your quarter.

Everyone on same page and in alignment, keep focus.