Vision’s Offspring.
A compelling vision inspires and nurtures three qualities, here personified as individuals. Do you think followers would benefit from contact with the following “people” in an organization?
CLARITY
My visits of clarity are soothing now. He never tells me what to think or feel or do but shows me how to find out what I need to know …. He presented me with a sketchbook and told me to draw the same thing every day until the drawing started to speak to me.
COMMITMENT
Commitment has kind eyes. He wears sturdy shoes…. You can taste in [his] vegetables that the soil has been cared for…. He is a simple man, and yet he is mysterious. He is more generous than most people. His heart is open. He is not afraid of life.
IMAGINATION
Some people accuse Imagination of being a liar. They don’t understand that she has her own ways of uncovering the truth…. Imagination has been working as a fortune-teller in the circus. She has a way of telling your fortune so clearly that you believe her, and then your wishes start to come true…. Her vision is more complex. And very simple. Even with the old stories, she wants us to see what has never been seen before.
~ J. Ruth Gendler, The Book of Qualities