Vision- Kennedy proved a point!

40 years after landing on the moon it is timely to reflect upon this achievement. President John F. Kennedy had a powerful vision in the very early 60's when he stated that the intention of the USA was "to land a man on the moon and successfully bring him home by the end of the decade" (or words to that effect).

Now love him or hate him the amazing thing was that when he made that statement the technology for such feat did not exist. But achieve it they did.....politics and cold war mongering aside, this was impressive and you can only imagine how brave those early astronauts were! Of course the spin off from the space program has been huge in many ways- new technology, new inventions (air conditioning, navigation systems, food, rocket engines, fuels and of course an interesting toilet system!).

The power of vision or as Jim Collins likes to call it "a Big hairy Audacious Goal" is incredible and if it is time bound, measurable, achievable and stretches a team then it really come to life. Get the Core Values right and the Vision and you are on the road to extraordinary results.

Karl (see our website)