Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose

Step Five: Modelling the dynamics of the vision

Visioning the future, understanding the key strategic factors and themes, identifying the risks and building systemic descriptions are all essentially cerebral activities. Groups across an organization could participate in all these activities without actually doing anything. In my experience this may happen — they remain in the world of dreams and discussions, of rhetoric rather than reality. The challenge is to create a bridge from the dreams of the future to the realities of the present. The strength and construction of the bridge will be crucial to the success of the endeavour — too weak and ...