PATTERN: SHARED VISION
PROBLEM
You work without deciding together what you are going to create.
Teams face vision problems in three areas.
PROBLEM 1: NO VISION
The lack of an active vision doesn't just inhibit success; it actively promotes evil. If your behavior has no cause, you promote meaninglessness with every act.
PROBLEM 2: FALSE VISION
A false vision is worse than purposelessness. Hypocrisy compounds the basic evil of visionless acts by turning idealists into cynics. Hopelessness results if your behavior has a different cause than the one announced.
PROBLEM 3: VICTIMIZATION AND SCAPEGOATING
People who are involved with projects with no vision are not victims. Those whose work has little purpose and much commotion cannot legitimately ...
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