But my hero is Lou Gerstner, who fibbed to us about the vision thing.
The vision thing is global, diverse, embracing and not necessarily driven by silicon.
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Does anyone there have the vision thing that was Steve Jobs particular gift?
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But where Gerstner faked out everybody is on the vision thing.
No one can say this Bush lacks the vision thing, which may be a pretty good indicator of where he falls in the great Powell-Rumsfeld debate.
Britain's Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks, says we remove religion from the political landscape at our peril, because without what George W Bush once called "the vision thing", politics is reduced to short-term matters of popularity or profit.
"If we had not had that group of people with the vision to put this thing together and we tried to do it today, I think it would be damn near impossible, " said Jimmy Ray, director of Harris County's Justice Information Management System (JIMS).
But this was Bissell's vision of the "new new thing"--get sufficient volumes of rock oil by drilling for it refine it into a high quality illuminating oil, and then take market share away from existing illuminants and, at the same time, build wholly new markets.
The first thing you need to do is to develop a comprehensive vision of the company you want to build.
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"The most exciting thing I saw as a child was this vision of von Braun going to the back of the Moon, " he explains to BBC News Online, as he relaxes in his plus-fours and diamond socks in preparation for a round of golf.
Bo Lu: Future Advisor is really trying to do one single thing: deliver on the vision that high-quality financial advice should be able to be produced cheaply and, thus, be broadly accessible to everyone.
"At Portland State is where I began a foundation and vision, knowing football is not the only thing that I'm good at but I'm also good at being a student, " Fuller says.
The thing that is missing in this new vision of television, however, is the set itself.
And, if you think of other great organizations that you know, perhaps Pixar, Toyota, Ritz-Carlton or Dell when it was on its great run, what you see is the same thing: an absolute focus on the vision, and reinforcement across all of the managerial choices.
So the first thing he did was to defeat the alternative vision for a Republican Party that was separated from principle.
Such a vision is, of course, typical of the sort of thing that computer makers have been promising for years.
He was selective in the bits of the Thatcherite agenda he chose to praise - specifically her vision of the "good society" rather than the "no such thing as society" comment - which might not reassure all on the right of his party.
They must have also thought back with some remorse, if such thing is possibly in the marketplace, about how they always sacrificed vision for quick profits and how they always forgot what they learned.
And so the main thing I want to emphasize tonight is remember that this is not my vision, this is your vision.
Make a commitment that every single day you will do one thing, however small it may seem, in the direction of your vision.
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"The thing I'm envisioning is that visual aids in your field of vision could highlight the lane markings for people who find night driving difficult, " he says.
"The vision is established, and now they need a hard-nosed manager to manage the thing, to make the business ties, and do the selling, " he said.
Again he thought he would run the thing (he headed sales), but the board didn't share his vision.
When I sat in the theater in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1977 and saw "Star Wars" (I refuse to call it "A New Hope") I walked away with a vision of not only how good can triumph over evil but how seeing a movie could be the coolest thing to ever happen to me.
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"One of our mottos is get the dam thing right, " said Steve Heintzelman, a local realtor who co-founded Grand River Future Vision, a group of fishing enthusiasts who initially opposed the plan.
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