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Is Your Vision Alive Or Has Resistance Won?
As a business coach, no set of questions is more important for a client than three questions that analyze what the “Vision Condition” of an organization is. They’re crucial because anything I lead my client to consider changing in the organization hinges on employee motivation. If there’s no buy-in to vision, I’m just offering the leader another set of ideas to be resisted by employees. But a revived focus on company vision gives us a “power tool” to work with.
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