Leadership requires us to view our world through trifocal lenses.
1) Intermediate Vision
- Today the consumer came in your store or clicked your site. The leader determines how to respond.
- The leaders eyes here will keep his doors open tomorrow.
- This is the vision and action of WHAT you do, the widget you make, or the service you give.
2) Reading Vision
- Like a coach studies film, the leader studies where he can get better and where he can give “atta boys” to his followers.
- “Leaders are readers.” Dave Ramsey
- Checks the metrics: Leaders keep the score and know their numbers. The numbers don’t lie.
- This is the vision of HOW you do what you do.
3) Distance Vision
- Leaders ask “The Question Behind The Question.”
- Leaders dream the world they long to see, and plan the steps to get there.
- Leaders align with John Maxwell’s philosophy of “if there is HOPE in tomorrow, then there is POWER in today.”
- This is the vision of WHY. This is where the leader sees himself as having not just a job, but a calling.
Proverbs 28:19 sums it up better than I ever could: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Ashton.Gustafson 