The latest in a long line of inanity:

Vision is the art of seeing things not visible.

I could be kind and say that I understand what the author was going for here. He wants to say that being able to recognize possibilities is what being a visionary is all about. But I'm not kind to people who obscure their meanings behind foolish pedantry so I'm calling "bullshit" here.

The premise itself is bunk. These sayings are supposed to be supportive or indicative of successful business culture. In business you do have true visionaries - they are the guys in the white coats down in the lab who tinker with doodads, gizmos and whatsits. They are markedly different from the people with corporate vision who assign budgets, verify cost and yield figures and do market analysis for the new product lines.

The real success of a business is not in seeing possibilities but in recognizing probabilities. In other words it is much more important to see what's directly in front of your face. Steve Wozniak was a visionary. Bill Gates had corporate vision.

Posted by: Jim at 11:24 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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1 "Vision is the art of seeing things not visible" It was written by someone who is an indirect person.

Posted by: pylorns at May 13, 2004 11:55 AM (FTYER)

2 Seeing things not visible is, I believe, called hallucinating...

Posted by: Susie at May 13, 2004 03:28 PM (xxMEB)

3 Bill Gates had corporate vision... and an inate abilty to pinch the ideas of visionarys!

Posted by: Rob at May 13, 2004 06:01 PM (BWDMP)

4 See? Rob understands the difference!

Posted by: Jim at May 13, 2004 07:07 PM (saeHM)

5 Vision isn't even art.

Posted by: Trey Givens at May 14, 2004 01:10 PM (JmLrk)

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