Vision... Direction... Trajectory... Mission... Long range planning...
We are consumed with the future and the promise that it surely holds ultimate success. Victory. Accomplishment. And, yes, we all know intellectually that we have to put the work in now to have success later, but I'm not sure we always act that way.
There are a lot of carts in front of horses in today's alliances. If everyone is the leader and everyone is casting the vision, then no one is. Every initiative needs vision and every vision needs to be created and articulated, but the bigger point here is that where there is leadership there must be much more followership. (So to speak.)
I call it the "Vision Vortex." It is the phenomena whereby an organization or an alliance (especially an alliance) is continually creating a new outline for the path forward and everyone involved is constantly sucked into this spiral where the work never gets done because grand plans are always being drawn up.
The Vision Vortex is a big problem in alliances because, as we have mentioned in this space previously, alliances have an inherent issue with too many leaders and not enough sleeves being rolled up. There are no feet being held to the fire in many cases and there is always another design for how to have future success.
