Chapter 9: The Vision

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Chapter 9 The Vision

• Where there is no vision, the people perish.
• -Proverbs 2918

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Career Line

• Sketch a career line
• Large sheet of newsprint marker pen
• Horizontal line for time
• Vertical line for feelings
• Good feeling above line bad below
• Detail the ups downs in your career
• Do this part in front of someone else
• Give it a title
• Extend it into the future

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Career Line

• The Rollercoaster
• Tonys career lifeline
• The events dont matter
• Peaks and valleys

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Can Success Breed Failure?

• External trouble
• Our own shortcomings
• Sometimes we ride too high
• Pride
• Iris
• The phototypesetter

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Central Role of the Vision

• Leaders reaction to failure
• The secret key
• The run-of-the-mill mission in life
• Politician, preachers, postal clerks, etc.
• The special vision
• Personalized- tied to the leaders obsession

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Why Vision Creates an Innovator

• Personal vision gives leader obsession with
  quality
• Each vision can be translated into a question
• This makes the separation
• Does it contribute to designing better
  operating systems?
• will it be required if Im to help the blind
  find useful work?

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Finding the Vision in Yourself

• No secret or skill will do any good w/o a
  personal vision
• Without a vision at the leading edge of
  technology people and projects perish
• A misplaced vision

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• Questions???