Leaders create our own “virtual reality”

As John Wilson (1995) wrote in The Self-Managing Strategy, we create our own “virtual reality” by the quality of our vision. If we don’t have a strong personal vision, then the script is handed to us by other people, or prevailing situations and circumstances. Developing vision is an opportunity to engage with the world in new and different ways. A vision is a powerful picture of the future that we carry in our head and in our hearts.

Authentic leaders do not have scripts handed to us by other people. We are the script; we write the script; we live the script. If we don’t like the script, we start again. We must continually be on the aware of pseudo-scripts as well as pseudo-leaders.