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Vision gives you the template for what to do today. You create your reality and achieve your vision one day at a time. And it begins today.
Vision gives you the template for what to do today. You create your reality and achieve your vision one day at a time. And it begins today.
In The E-Myth Revisited, Tom Watson, the Found of IBM, is quoted as follows:
“IBM is what it is today for three special reasons. The first reason is that, at the very beginning, I had a very clear picture of what the company would look like when it was finally done. You might say I had a model in my mind of what it would look like when the dream — my vision — was in place.
The second reason was that once I had that picture, I then asked myself how a company which looked like that would have to act. I then created a picture of how IBM would act when it was finally done.
The third reason IBM has been so successful was that once I had a picture of how IBM would look when the dream was in place and how such a company would have to act, I then realized that, unless we began to act that way from the very beginning, we would never get there.
In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.
From the very outset, IBM was fashioned after the template of my vision…
Every day at IBM was a day devoted to business development, not doing business.
We didn’t do business at IBM, we built one.”
I wish you the vision to see clearly what you can build today. I wish you well.
- Rob Stephens
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