But the dreamers of day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. First, you have to want to learn. While this task may be shared and developed with other key members of the organization, it remains the leader's core responsibility and cannot be delegated. With a vision, the leader procides the all-important bridge from the present to the future of the organization. Management of attention through vision is the creating of focus.
Leaders are the most results-oriented individuals in the world, and results get attention.
Their visions or intentions are compelling and pull people toward them. Intensity coupled with commitment is magnetic. In all these cases, the leader may have been the one who chose the image from those available at the moment, articulated it, gave it form and legitimacy, and focused attention on it, but the leader only rarely was the one who conceived of vision in the first place. Therefore, the leader must be a superb listener, particularly to those advocating new or different images of the emerging reality. Many leaders establish both formal and informal channels of communication to gain access to these ideas.