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What was your vision when you started your business? Was it to solve a problem? Monetize on something you are passionate about? To have freedom and stability? Whatever the reason, there must be a vision behind all start up or long-lasting businesses. An idea, created by the founder, of what they want their business to look like in the future.
A simple foresight of what the future will or could look like can change the course of how a business is done. A visionary entrepreneur will know what the business will look like and every aspect of its process or as a finished form.
Here are reasons why an entrepreneur should be visionary
1. Vision Frames the Entire Business
Vision forms and sets the culture, creates norms and duties that outlines how the total organization acts. It is the driving force that leads an organization.
A visionary entrepreneur is able to create the desired culture in an organization and shape its actions. Successful entrepreneurs like, Mark Zuckerberg or Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have had visions that were so driven that those visions are still the reason behind company’s current framework.
2. Vision is the Key to Focus
Nowadays it is easy to get distracted and lose sight of what is important for our business to grow, a clear vision gets a person working around one single idea instead of deviating and jumping from and to different ideas.
No success is ever achieved by clusters of thoughts but by the single idea that freezes into a mission. A clear vision will define a path for an entrepreneur and hence prevent straying of the mind.
3. A Good Vision Can Ensure Survival in Changing Environment
If the pandemic had thought us anything it surely had shown us that the business environment is ever changing. From internal to the external environment, an entrepreneur needs to have a clear vision of knowing the track of change and pre-adopting to the change.
Great visions lead to the futuristic approach to survival, ensuring well-being not only in the current situation but in many unavoidable changes in the business environment. Surviving change requires a great strategy which is inspired by a good vision.
4. Vision Tempts Innovation
People with an innovative mindset have forward thinking. Innovation is often the result of seeing or dreaming of a future that isn’t thought possible by countless. Visionary entrepreneurs look at the world from a different angle and renovate their vision into innovation.
Are you a visionary entrepreneur? Take the time to review the reasons you went into business and outline the future of your business. If you want to drive future success you must have a clear vision and communicate it clearly with your organization.
People without vision perish. – Proverbs 29:18
Excerpts from article written by Prajwalla, Independent writer for onentrepreneur.com
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