Advice for CEOs

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this article, I discussed how CEO’s can take practical steps to turn a vision into real organizational and business change, including deciding on and communicating the plan.

In a previous blog post I described a practical approach for the CEO of a growth company to turn his or her vision into reality, breaking it down into steps and assigning accountability for them.

Vision is so important for the CEO, but how do we translate vision into action? How do we make the vision come alive throughout the organization? It sounds like a difficult problem—translating abstract ideas into practical steps for people to follow every day. In fact, there are concrete, practical techniques you can use to translate ideas (including “visionary” ones) into reality. The following is the first in a 3- part series of articles that will address this problem.