February 24, 2014

Working with visionaries

Visionaries are big dreamers. They are a driving force for change in the world. They are the spark that ignites the fire of revolutions.

They are also crazy makers. Their ideas are unbounded by external constraints. They overextend themselves and the people that work for them. They switch directions like the wind on top of Mount Everest.

I choose do not chase the wild ideas of visionaries. Ideas are real to them; Ideas are their world. I listen (and acknowledge) their world but always pause before I allow their idea-based world to influence my action-based world. I take time to weigh their ideas against the discrete, real-world actions steps necessary to manifest them.

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