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Realizing Your Vision

Realizing Your Vision. Rebecca Norlander. Step One: Have a Vision. Think Big; think long-term Articulate your vision To yourself, every day To others Align your job with your vision Create milestones My vision: To positively change the world through software and technology.

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Realizing Your Vision

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  1. Realizing Your Vision Rebecca Norlander

  2. Step One: Have a Vision • Think Big; think long-term • Articulate your vision • To yourself, every day • To others • Align your job with your vision • Create milestones My vision: To positively change the world through software and technology

  3. Step Two: Develop and Polish your Building Blocks • Confidence • Focus and Prioritization • Critical thinking • Self-awareness • Empathy

  4. Confidence • Your foundation • Allows for: • Risk-taking • Leaps of faith • Courageous acts Vignette: SP2

  5. Focus and Prioritization • Identify the important elements; explicitly cut the rest • Allows for: • Creation of momentum in self and others • Directed progress Vignette: SP2

  6. Critical thinking • Be your scientist self! • Clinical • Thorough • Analytical • Rigorous • Objective • Work with others (be open to unlikely partnerships!) • Allows for: • Better decisions & strategies • credibility and trust with peers, management, teams, customers, partners Vignette: Jeb Bush

  7. Self-awareness • Turn your scrutiny inward: know your strengths, your weaknesses • Surround yourself with complementary people • Allows for: • Humility • Sustainable leadership Vignette: GM and communication

  8. Empathy • Walk the mile • Allows for: • Understanding of people, how they act, what’s important to them • How to best partner with people • Getting a lot more done than you can solo Vignette: every day!

  9. Achieving your Vision:What works for you?

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