Comments on: Vision is the Thing http://johnmarshallroberts.com/vision-is-the-thing-2 Igniting Inspiration, Keynote Speaker, Green Marketing, Strategic Communications Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:12:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jmarshallroberts http://johnmarshallroberts.com/vision-is-the-thing-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1562 jmarshallroberts Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:52:57 +0000 http://www.jmarshallroberts.com/wordpress/?p=517#comment-1562 well put. I agree with you. we all have the capacity to great leaders in our own way. I believe that what we sometimes lack is the courage to look at things honestly, and to embrace our own path. well put.
I agree with you.
we all have the capacity to great leaders in our own way.
I believe that what we sometimes lack is the courage to look at things honestly, and to embrace our own path.

]]> By: Annie Smidt http://johnmarshallroberts.com/vision-is-the-thing-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1561 Annie Smidt Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:48:51 +0000 http://www.jmarshallroberts.com/wordpress/?p=517#comment-1561 Vision is about believing in a few difficult ideas enough to be willing to act on them: abundance, risk, change, making things better (and it being worth it to make things better). Being a visionary leader involves having the charisma, or rhetorical skill or just good, old-fashioned authenticity to be able to bring others along to help get the action aspects done. I used to be sad — believing that if you weren't born with (or nurtured to have) a certain degree of charisma and to be a "connector" in the Gladwell sense, you were doomed to fail as a visionary. You'd be one of history's admired weirdo's at best — like William Blake or Eric Gill. But I've come round to thinking that part of having vision is being able to change your lot — to become, if you believe strongly enough, a leader and a disseminator of ideas. Especially as our culture and economies turn to embrace the new paradigms of connectedness and collaboration that some of us are already in love with. Vision is about believing in a few difficult ideas enough to be willing to act on them: abundance, risk, change, making things better (and it being worth it to make things better).

Being a visionary leader involves having the charisma, or rhetorical skill or just good, old-fashioned authenticity to be able to bring others along to help get the action aspects done.

I used to be sad — believing that if you weren’t born with (or nurtured to have) a certain degree of charisma and to be a “connector” in the Gladwell sense, you were doomed to fail as a visionary. You’d be one of history’s admired weirdo’s at best — like William Blake or Eric Gill. But I’ve come round to thinking that part of having vision is being able to change your lot — to become, if you believe strongly enough, a leader and a disseminator of ideas. Especially as our culture and economies turn to embrace the new paradigms of connectedness and collaboration that some of us are already in love with.

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