Software for Your Head

PATTERN: METAVISION

PROBLEM

There's no purposeful, institutionally supported approach to the management of visions.

When you lack a vision of visions, it is because you haven't thought things through. If great products come from great teams, and great teams depend on great visions, then the vision of visions—what they are, how to get them, how to make them real—is of the utmost importance. If you think things through, you will naturally want to define a vision before all else.

Metavision is a recursive idea. It requires that you first have a vision about visions in order to routinely and collaboratively make great products. Many people casually toss about the terms “vision,” “mission,” and “goal” without really thinking about those words and ...