We see things, not as they are, but as we are. Therefore, when a vision is hindered, it is usually a people problem. There are ten types of people who usually hinder the vision of the organization.<\/p>\n
1. LIMITED LEADERS<\/p>\n
Everything rises and falls on leadership. That statement is certainly true with vision casting. A limited leader will either lack the vision or the ability to successfully pass it on.<\/p>\n
The prime minister of France once said, \u201cIf you are doing big things, you attract big men. If you are doing little things, you attract little men. Little men usually cause trouble.\u201d Then he paused, shook his head sadly, and added, \u201cWe are having an awful lot of trouble.<\/p>\n
2. CONCRETE THINKERS<\/p>\n
George Bernard Shaw said, \u201cSome men see things as they are and say, \u2018Why?\u2019 [concrete thinker] I dream of things that never were and say \u2018Why not?\u2019 [creative thinker]\u201d<\/p>\n
Charlie Brown holds up his hands before his friend Lucy and says, \u201cThese are hands which may someday accomplish great things. These are hands which may someday do marvelous works! They may build mighty bridges, or heal the sick, or hit home runs, or write soul-stirring novels! These are hands which may someday change the course of destiny!\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucy, who always sees things as they are, replies, \u201cThey\u2019ve got jelly on them.\u201d<\/p>\n
3. DOGMATIC TALKERS<\/p>\n
Many visions aren\u2019t realized because of strong, dogmatic people. To be absolutely certain about something, one must either know everything or nothing about it. Most of the time, the dogmatist knows nothing but conventionally says something. For example, \u201cEverything that can be invented has been invented.\u201d That was Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, speaking in 1899! Of course, Duell was not alone. President Grover Cleveland once commented (in 1905) that \u201csensible and responsible women do not want to vote.\u201d Then there was Robert Miliken, Nobel Prize winner in physics, who said in 1923, \u201cThere is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.\u201d Lord Kelvin, president of England\u2019s Royal Society (a scientific organization), noted in 1885, \u201cHeavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
4. CONTINUAL LOSERS<\/p>\n
Many people look at their past failures and fear the risk of pursuing a vision. Their motto is, \u201cIf at first you don\u2019t succeed, destroy all evidence that you\u2019ve tried.\u201d They also destroy everyone\u2019s attempt to ever try again.<\/p>\n
5. SATISFIED SITTERS<\/p>\n
People strive for comfort, predictability, and security in life. On the heels of comfort comes complacency; of predictability, boredom; and of security, a lack of vision. A nest is good for a robin while it is an egg. But it is bad for a robin when it has wings. It\u2019s a good place to be hatched in, but it\u2019s a poor place to fly in. It\u2019s always sad when people don\u2019t want to leave the nests of their lives.<\/p>\n
In a Leadership magazine article, Lynn Anderson described what happens when people lose their vision. A group of pilgrims landed on the shores of America nearly four hundred years ago. With great vision and courage they had come to settle in the new land. In the first year, they established a town. In the second, they elected town council. In the third, the government proposed building a road five miles westward into the wilderness. But in the fourth year, the people tried to impeach the town council because the people thought such a road into the forest was a waste of public funds. Somehow these forward-looking people had lost their vision. Once able to see across oceans, they now could not look five miles into the wilderness.<\/p>\n
6. TRADITION LOVERS<\/p>\n
The British have always been good with the patronage system. John F. Barker in Roll Call tells the story that for more than twenty years, for no apparent reason, an attendant stood at the foot of the stairway leading to the House of Commons. At last someone checked and discovered that the job had been held in the attendant\u2019s family for three generations. It seems it originated when the stairs were painted and the current attendant\u2019s grandfather was assigned the task of warning people not to step on the wet paint.<\/p>\n
One British newsman, told of the situation, commented, \u201cThe paint dried up but not the job.\u201d<\/p>\n
7. CENSUS TAKERS<\/p>\n
Some people never feel comfortable stepping out of the crowd. They desire to be a part of, not apart from, the group. These people will only embrace the vision when the majority does. They are never in front.<\/p>\n
True leaders are always in the minority because they are thinking ahead of the present majority. Even when the majority catches up, these leaders will have moved ahead and so, again, will be in the minority.<\/p>\n
8. PROBLEM PERCEIVERS<\/p>\n
Some people can see a problem in every solution. Usually obstacles are the things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Interestingly, some people think the ability to see problems is a mark of maturity. Not so. It\u2019s the mark of a person without a vision. These people abort great visions by presenting problems without any solutions.<\/p>\n
Cardinal John Henry Newman said that nothing would get done at all if a man waited until he could do something so well that no one could find fault with it.<\/p>\n
9. SELF-SEEKERS<\/p>\n
People who live for themselves are in a mighty small business. They also never accomplish much. Great goals are only reached by the united effort of many. Selfish people are vision busters.<\/p>\n
10. FAILURE FORECASTERS<\/p>\n
Some people have a faculty for touching the wrong keys. From the finest instrument, they extract only discord. All their songs are in a minor key. They send the note of pessimism everywhere. The shadows dominate all their pictures. Their outlook is always gloomy, times are always bad, and money is tight. Everything in them seems to be contracting; nothing in their lives expands or grows.<\/p>\n
These people are like the man who gathered with many others at the Hudson River to see the first steamship launched. He kept saying, \u201cThey\u2019ll never get her going. They\u2019ll never get her going.\u201d But they did. The steamship belched and moved out fast. Immediately the same man said, \u201cThey\u2019ll never get her stopped. They\u2019ll never get her stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n
I love the Chinese proverb that states, \u201cMan who says, \u2018It cannot be done\u2019 should not interrupt man who is doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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