Why do leaders hide from funding their vision?
Well, I think there's probably a number of reasons.
I mean, one is if you have a vision, it's, it's usually something
that is born as something very personal.
And so there can be a lot of risk in putting it out there.
And so part of that may just simply be, um, you know, fearing repercussions
or fearing judgment, um, we certainly know, you know, in business that it
can be pretty cutthroat sometimes.
And so that could be challenging.
I think too, there's often a, an idea that from a funding standpoint, um,
funding a big vision is a, is a big risk because what if it doesn't work out?
What if we don't get the return on that investment?
Um, but what I would say to that is if you have a vision and you put
time and effort into it, you're either going to have a big win and promote
that idea and that vision is going to be out there in the world and have an influence.
Are you going to learn some really valuable lessons that will help you the next time?
And so, you know, I think that so often, and certainly in my experience, I've
been in companies before where I've worked with companies before where.
The times when I find people being hesitant to talk about their vision, being
hesitant to talk about taking a risk.
And I think that in cultures where, you know, company cultures, where it is
encouraged to go try things, um, and if you fail, you know, you're not going to
go try things, um, and if you fail, we don't just walk away from it.
We learn from it.
What did we learn from the situation?
And I think too, like when you have a big vision, like some of the biggest
visionaries I've ever worked for, they put out that big vision and we work
towards it, and even if we don't nail the vision perfectly, it has moved us
forward in such a way that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
And I find that really inspiring because, you know, it's a risk.
And if you can rally people around that vision, you're going to move
people in a direction that's positive, that's going to have an impact above
and beyond where you would have been if you did it.
And so, you know, I think that there's a lot of fear and a lot of risk in
sharing a vision, uh, particularly in certain company cultures, but I feel
like in the right, with the right support in the right perspective of
how do we think about failure?
How do we think about learning?
We really should be encouraging people to do that.