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"Vision"-Who owns it?

​PS: Writing this post straight out of my bed at Morning 5:00 am. Ignore my mistakes.:)
Every time when we meet someone new- a friend, prospect, Senior person in an organization etc. The second question would be "What do you do ?" or "What are you working on?" or "what does your company do?" and I assume 70% of the answers are " I am a developer" or " I work on GIS platform" or "My company builds mobile apps" . So whats wrong in that?
Nothing rig ht. But take a step back and read the question "What do you do ?". Can the answer be
 " I am working for a vision ..... and I contribute my part as a developer ....."
"My company has a vision ....and to achieve this vision we work on ............" 
" we as an organization work for a vision to build ...".
It sounds good right and also motivational for the person hearing. If it's so good(i feel it's good), then why don't we actually say it. It is because in most of the situations employees are not aware or remember the vision. We assume the vision is only for the Management\Founders\CEO's. But the fact is vision is for everyone in the organization. we all are working for a cause. If you know the cause then you work with passion and against all the odds. 

"Hire someone who loves your vision and wants to be part of it and he will take care of the rest ."

Vision Belongs to everyone in the organization. Live It, believe in it, achieve it. 

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  1. David CottrellJanuary 21, 2018 at 5:54 PM

    Very good. I would like to add some comments to put a finger point on it if I may. "Work" is what we do with our minds and bodies. So, as you said, to tell someone what we do for work is not incorrect, but may miss am opportunity to expand our career identity. And vision is important, but I would like to back up a step even further. We are in business to solve breakdowns in the marketplace. We cannot sell on vision alone. So, we could respond when asked, "We solve the problem(s)... by... Our vision is to..." This creates an identity as well as a narrative about the problems we solve. Then we could share what we do for work specifically. Hope that is useful.

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    1. Karthik SagarJune 16, 2018 at 3:23 AM

      I think what you mentioned also adds lot of value when we say " We Solve the problem(s)....by.... Our Vision is to...". It can carry both identity and our moto together.

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