Positive Leadership: Vision Without Execution Is Hallucination

When you're clear in your company purpose--your "why," as leadership author Simon Sinek puts it--your strategic direction becomes self-evident.

Positive Leadership: Vision Without Execution Is Hallucination

Positive Leadership: Execution is Everything!

The Stanford Graduate School of Business View from the Top Series hosted venture capitalist John Doerr in a question and answer session where he helped enlighten students on such topics as start-ups, healthcare and jobs in emerging markets. 

Doerr, general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, emphasised that "The best entrepreneurs are the ones who really go the distance with their companies, who are always learning."

Doerr serves on boards in the areas of Internet technologies and greentech, including Amyris, Bloom Energy, Essence Healthcare, Flipboard, FloDesign Wind Turbines, Google, iControl, mCube, Renmatix and Quantumscape. He also works with Groupon, Twitter and Square.

Positive Leadership: Execution is Everything!

Execution

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done is about getting the right things done – about producing positive results.

If purpose is your “why,” and vision is your “what,” then executing is your “how.”  

So, what approach or process do you use to foster a discipline of action?

How do you measure your leadership?    

Execution