my latest book, The Vision Code, which comes with Wiley on January 28<\/a>.
\nThis book impacted me more than anything else I have done in my life before.<\/p>\nIt took a bit more than a year to put pages together. At the same time, this journey is much longer as I was looking for answers to simple, yet difficult questions for many years.<\/p>\n
What vision is? How a strong and compelling vision comes? Or What stands behind that \u2018Aha\u2019 moment? What common leadership and personal traits are shared by visionaries? Where execution loses vision? If we consider vision as a mental or psychological construction then what elements of it are the most critical? How do visionaries prepare or reinvent themselves to make a vision a reality?<\/p>\n
The most important question I raised to myself is – How to turn vision into a practical business tool and make it assessable to many leaders across the globe?<\/p>\n
So, I set myself for a search for the golden ratio of vision.<\/p>\n
Life does not matter without a purpose. Life is meaningless and our obligation is to make it meaningful, whether we talk about personal life or business.<\/p>\n
There are millions of not happy families. There are millions of businesses that are meaningless and they are dying as insects because leaders are not thinking about making their businesses meaningful.<\/p>\n
The difference between meaningless and meaningful and valuable for you and others is VISION! I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to be.<\/p>\n
If you have no vision, why are you here? If all you are doing is eating, breathing, and going about daily tasks then what kind of value you bring to this world.<\/p>\n
We are living in a time of leadership blindness. Less than 0.1% of leaders have a vision. So, the vast majority of leaders are not leading people. We hardly know where we lead ourselves and others. We think about the past a lot, we think a bit about the present, and we think very little about the future.<\/p>\n
Modern leadership depends on vision and direction. If we are getting better with a direction, many still struggle with vision thinking it unnecessary or that it is beyond them.<\/p>\n
When there is no vision, no amount of effort or money can help. With vision, real change can be achieved. The world is conquered by visionaries and surrenders its advantages and opportunities to them unconditionally.<\/p>\n
Having a vision is like looking at the present from the future\u2019s standpoint. Being a visionary is similar to putting your own signature on the future while being here and now. A visionary defines how soon the future reality will come. In this sense, vision is like a time machine.<\/p>\n
We can even think about innovation, sustainable development, or simple life happiness without vision. We need to have a clear vision to master the future.<\/p>\n
What is important to consider that vision doesn\u2019t have gender, nationality, or age. Vision is not for a selected few.<\/p>\n
Vision\u2026 we consider vision as a gift, something mystical, given, and not accessible. We see it as something very unconscious. As Carl Jung said – \u2018Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate\u2019.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m blessed to be in one room with the global visionaries and thought leaders. In a search for the answers, I had incredible discussions with nineteen exceptional visionaries from across the globe, top global thinkers and CEOs from the USA, UK, Canada, Russia, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, and India.<\/p>\n
These nineteen visionaries allowed me to reveal how they think and act on their visions. I share their incredible stories and very practical views in every chapter of The Vision Code.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m very grateful to my respondents – Marshall Goldsmith (#1 Leadership Thinker in the world; Martin Lindstrom (#1 Branding in the world); Garry Ridge (Chairman and CEO of WD-40 Company); David Katz (Founder and CEO of Plastic Bank); Stuart Crainer (Co-Founder, Thinkers50); John Spence (one of the top 100 business thought leaders); Feyzi Fatehi (CEO of Corent Tech, Inc.); Olga Uskova (President and Founder of Cognitive Technologies Group); Mark Thompson (World’s #1 CEO Coach, 30 Global Gurus, and a Venture Investor); Asheesh Advani (President and CEO of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide); Adam Witty (Founder and CEO of Advantage Media\/ForbesBooks); H.E. Ms. Sania A. Ansari (Chairperson at Ansari Group Ltd); Thomas Kolditz, PhD (Executive Director, Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, Brigadier General (Retired); Prof. Amit Kapoor (Chairman of Institute for Competitiveness, India); Alex Goryachev (Managing Director at Cisco Innovation Centers, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of \u201cFearless Innovation\u201d); Noel Ferguson (Founder and Executive Chairman of Institute of One World Leadership (IOWL); Prof. Nabhit Kapur, Psy.D (Founder of PeacefulMind Foundation); Raphael Louis (Leader and President of the National Coalition Party of Canada (NCPC); Dr. Babalola Omoniyi (Founder and Executive Director of Pan African Leadership and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (PALEDEC).<\/p>\n
Vision is an aspiration for the future that we strive to make a reality today. Vision is a future reality created today for the benefit of others. Vision is accessible only if you prepared to think beyond the present and is a process of creation.<\/span><\/p>\nVision is greater than an organization, is greater than a person himself. So, it is not a statement crafted during a Board meeting. It is a force that created within you – and powerful enough to make a positive difference to the world.<\/p>\n
Vision is not a gift what is often believed. Vision is the six-step process. I explain this process in my forthcoming book, The Vision Code, in which I cracked the code of vision, demystified it, and presented vision as a practical business tool.<\/p>\n
I call this six-step process – CAVIAR<\/h3>\n
\nClarity of Creation<\/b>
\nVision comes when your conscious awareness of a problem you want to solve reaches its peak.<\/p>\n
So, it doesn\u2019t come overnight. It is not about you walk down a street and a strong vision comes to you for no reason. It takes time and effort.<\/p>\n
Vision grows from the deepest aspirations which become a very focused solution to a grand problem.<\/p>\n
It must be well supported by the ability to manage it. So, Ability.<\/p>\n
Vision is much greater than you or your company. A leader must be capable to lead his vision and grow with it.<\/p>\n
You nurture and develop this competence through five critical elements:<\/p>\n