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Why do leaders hide from funding their vision?

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Well, I think there's probably a number of reasons.

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I mean, one is if you have a vision, it's, it's usually something

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that is born as something very personal.

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And so there can be a lot of risk in putting it out there.

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And so part of that may just simply be, um, you know, fearing repercussions

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or fearing judgment, um, we certainly know, you know, in business that it

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can be pretty cutthroat sometimes.

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And so that could be challenging.

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I think too, there's often a, an idea that from a funding standpoint, um,

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funding a big vision is a, is a big risk because what if it doesn't work out?

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What if we don't get the return on that investment?

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Um, but what I would say to that is if you have a vision and you put

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time and effort into it, you're either going to have a big win and promote

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that idea and that vision is going to be out there in the world and have an influence.

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Are you going to learn some really valuable lessons that will help you the next time?

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And so, you know, I think that so often, and certainly in my experience, I've

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been in companies before where I've worked with companies before where.

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The times when I find people being hesitant to talk about their vision, being

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hesitant to talk about taking a risk.

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And I think that in cultures where, you know, company cultures, where it is

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encouraged to go try things, um, and if you fail, you know, you're not going to

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go try things, um, and if you fail, we don't just walk away from it.

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We learn from it.

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What did we learn from the situation?

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And I think too, like when you have a big vision, like some of the biggest

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visionaries I've ever worked for, they put out that big vision and we work

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towards it, and even if we don't nail the vision perfectly, it has moved us

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forward in such a way that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

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And I find that really inspiring because, you know, it's a risk.

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And if you can rally people around that vision, you're going to move

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people in a direction that's positive, that's going to have an impact above

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and beyond where you would have been if you did it.

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And so, you know, I think that there's a lot of fear and a lot of risk in

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sharing a vision, uh, particularly in certain company cultures, but I feel

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like in the right, with the right support in the right perspective of

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how do we think about failure?

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How do we think about learning?

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We really should be encouraging people to do that.