Speaking Your Vision, Conclusion

If you missed the beginning of this post, you can go here to catch up, or go here to start at the beginning of my Tips for Aspiring Leaders series.

The last thing (for now) I have to say about speaking your vision is that the point of being both creative and disciplined about speaking your vision is to achieve “conversational momentum”. You can think of conversational momentum as a critical mass, or a state of existence characterized by self-perpetuation and self-correction.

In other words, when you’ve been talking about your vision for a long enough time, the network of conversations you created starts to take on a life of its own. It starts to feed itself. People who like what you’re talking about start to talk about it themselves (self-perpetuation).

New conversations emerge that continue to elucidate the original vision. Conversations that don’t support the fulfillment of the vision fail to gain momentum and die away (self-correction). Your vision begins to live in the network of conversations, and becomes less and less dependent on your own tongue.

Of course, this often takes years, if not decades to achieve. My little tiny post on the subject doesn’t even begin to do justice to the scope or importance of this process. Yet, for aspiring leaders, the ability to articulate a vision, and thus create a network of conversations that support the fulfillment of that vision, is fundamentally important.

Here’s what I want you to take away from this post:

Effective leaders are adept at speaking their vision into existence. That is, they are good at intentionally creating and engaging in conversations that help bring about the fulfillment of their vision in reality.

Their vision serves as a context for the conversations they invent, and no matter what challenges and circumstances pop up along the way, they speak and lead as thought there is only one path ahead…the path that fulfills their vision.

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