Why do Visionaries and Conductors need to Slow Down?
"A Visionary is someone with a strong vision of the future."
"A Conductor is someone with a strong ability to execute visions and get ideas done and grounded in actions."
On top of the change happening now, there are visionaries who made their way through the DENIAL and RESISTANCE phases of the Change process, and they are coming up with ideas and thoughts, and even complete compelling visions about the future after the storm of COVID-19 ends.
These visionaries, besides being few, and not in all cases have the power, authority or privilege to voice out their views in the organizations, making them feel lonely, irrelevant, come down to distress of feeling out of context, losing confidence, and even ridiculed when they voice out among majorities of peers who are still in prior stages of the change.
In many cases, visionaries are ideators who have the habit of thinking and generating ideas. It may be difficult to filter out the voices of those who are still in Denial, or in Resistance, vs. those who are coming from a true place of articulated enlightened vision that can turn tables and take the organization/business to its ultimatum. It is a tough call and needs someone with very sound judgment to assess where this voice comes.
On the other hand, Conductors, are action-oriented people, who rarely calm down or slow down, they are implementors of great ideas and visions, and in times of change, they are desperately seeking actions to take and driving everyone under their power under them to move and act.
Not all conductors are visionaries, as well, not all conductors have the ability to pass swiftly through the change process, so in some cases, when they are in denial or resistance phase, they are just harming their organization strategy by taking it off track the desired change, and sometimes, if not competent in listening, their hotness on taking actions maybe off trailing the organization out of the market.
Visionaries, Conductors, as well organization leaders, may not be comprehended or powerful in times of Force Majeure, if alone they stand. People's fear and resistance may make them powerless and in-efficient, with no ability to execute or move any step that counts.
Slowing down and giving space to dialogue between the organization's voices, all of them, and spotting visionaries, and conductors who can lead the business into the future is a responsibility of leadership.
Visionaries have to work on finding conductors to talk out loud about their ideas and get better-grounded plans for execution. Conductors need to slow down their actions and relook the strategy after comprehending the new paradigm, and aligning with the current given circumstances with the least conflicts and resistance. The leadership role is to integrate a strategy and make sure actions are aligned with the new direction and keep the dialogue open in the organization focusing on leading people through the change each one at their right pace.
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