Episode 7. The Importance of Vision

I hope you have eyeballs. If you don’t, I hope you wear sunglasses all the time. If you don’t, you probably should. Anyway, it’s possible that up until now you’ve only had to follow the vision that others have laid out for you, and you’ll continue to do so for as long as you have anyone that you report to. But now you’re going to be expected to play a larger role in the creation of your company’s overall vision. And if you’re going to be managing a team of people, then you’ll need to develop your own vision of both what you want your team to accomplish and how you want your team to operate as it pursues those goals.

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