Think of the place kicker on a football team. The game is in overtime, he's up to kick a field goal. The crowd is ROARING! He can look at this one kick with stress and fear of not doing well and letting his team down. Or he can view it as an opportunity - to win the game for his team, to be notorious, to do his very best. We all know that the kickers who look at this as an opportunity are the ones who excel.

But opportunity and strategy are nothing without execution. One way to ensure execution is to have a vision - a vision of that football zooming through those posts, straight through the center.

As a business leader, what's your vision of soaring through the goal posts? How do you communicate it and enlist your team in your vision?

My first blog post. I have been thinking about this for so long.

This blog is dedicated to all those who have worked in companies with little of their heart showing, but kept an open heart anyway. Here's to you!