> . If a visioning exercise succeeds in strengthening the
> organization's ability to use dialogue to speed info. and ideas around to
> organizational "hot spots", then I would judge it to be useful, not
> because it resulted in a vision statement everyone could buy off on.
> mdarling@warren.med.harvard.edu
I would further qualify that a useful vision must capture the "essence"
of what an organization is ALREADY about, to be effective. It must be
simple and reflect commonly-held beliefs. It cannot introduce new
concepts and be effective.
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