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02: Vision in Leadership

Leaders make things happen – they take people places they would not go on their own – and that is what vision is all about The bible says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) Another translation reads, “Without revelation people run wild, but one who listens to instruction will be happy.” (Holman Version) It is vision that accomplishes great things on earth! What is Vision really? Here is a nugget from John F. Kennedy’s speech on Sept 12, 1962 casting the vision to reach the moon before 1970: “We choose to go to the moon,” the president said. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

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