Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
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