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Vision, systems, and people

Vision, systems, and people

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Vision, systems, and people

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- Now, as well as providing a vision, there are two other things that a leader does, and I think of this as vision, systems, and people. So the leader provides a vision of where we're going to get there, they set up systems so that everything works well, and they look after the people and make sure they've got the right people in the right positions, and that those people are motivated. We're going to explore this in more detail later on, but vision, systems, and people are the big three things. So if there's a problem, it almost certainly means that either the systems weren't working or the people were perhaps not properly trained or weren't right for the job. So you must always ask yourself do I need to improve the systems, or is it a people problem? And never blame the people. In a way, everything's management's fault in the end. Because if something goes wrong, that person wasn't in the right job. Whose fault was that? That person wasn't trained. Whose fault was that? Or maybe it…

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