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Full Steam Ahead! by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner — WisdomDeck honest review
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Full Steam Ahead!

by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner

Vision made practical: a significant purpose, a picture of the future and clear values, told through a parable in an insurance agency. The three-part vision test is the useful takeaway.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Vision is purpose, picture and values.
  2. A vision people cannot picture is not a vision.
  3. Live the vision, do not frame it.

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Test your current vision against the three elements and rewrite the weakest.

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Vision, in three parts.

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