Dear leader, vision is it: without vision the people perish. A vision is a future reality seen now. It is a portrait of a future that grabs. Are you a leader--a CEO? Then you aren't appointed simply to maintain the status quo and ensure the wind blows on as usual. You are to dream, dare and do.

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Dear leader, vision is it: without vision the people perish. A vision is a future reality seen now. It is a portrait of a future that grabs. Are you a leader--a CEO? Then you aren't appointed simply to maintain the status quo and ensure the wind blows on as usual. You are to dream, dare and do.

People and organisations expect their leader to have three eyes. So if you have just two, you had better seek and get the third. Otherwise, your leadership will mean nothing. The third eye is the vision eye, the ability to draw up a mental picture of a better state for the people or organisation you are leading. Without this ability you will fumble, flounder and fail.

The history of all great leaders shows they have one common attribute--visionary. They are all seers who act upo...

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