Combining Vision with Action

We often think that vision is something that is out there. Since I

have completed my MBA, which included research on high performance in

small teams, I have reflected a lot on what really enables high

performance. Vision is a critical element – but so is action. This

thought has led me to see that most, if not all literature around

entrepreneurship, performance and other areas focus on internalising the

message that it is about your action and how you live it.

It does not matter what I do – as long as I do it – with intent,

passion, conviction and to an end that I have in mind – it will

manifest.

This sounds strange – but if I chew gum because I really believe that

this is my course to being the greatest person in the world – strangely,

I will achieve it… How is this possible ? Remember that the whole

world is as we see it, experience it and as we form it. It is as if on a

quantum level we are what we want to be.

This phenomena of information maleability causing a realignment of

the relationship between one and their environment – is not a new idea

and we are starting to see some of this thinking emerging with “octopus

strategy theories”. For a long time we have asked who shapes the

strategy of the organisation – and somehow imagined that it is the CEO,

top management or some central force, body or document. In reality – the

strategy lives in every individual that makes small decisions around

their daily tasks and this collective action and wisdom form the overall

direction in which everything is moving. What if this translates even

further to our own humanity, learning and being. Maybe then I am a

person through other people – and I live because others see me in their

minds. Maybe then we are all again figments of each other’s

imaginations, and if we somehow forgot about each other, the world would

disappear.

I think it is time for some interesting experiments… Could the

world really be that maleable to the thoughts and feelings that we have

– I think it is…