Building Shared Vision - The Third Discipline of Learning Organizations
"If you don't care where you're going, then it doesn't matter which way you go." -Lewis Carroll In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice asks the Cheshire cat to tell her which way to go, and he responds that it depends on where she wants to go. When Alice replies that she doesn't care, the cat responds with the above quote. This quote speaks volumes about the importance of creating a shared vision. It is reflective of the shortsighted focus that is all too common in organizations today. To be fair, it is exquisitely challenging to disentangle oneself enough from the grip of day-to-day operations to "see the forest for the trees." Yet without a shared vision, the force of the status quo will prevail in an organization.
