Trifocal Leadership

Leadership requires us to view our world through trifocal lenses.

1) Intermediate Vision

• Today the consumer came in your store or clicked your site. The leader determines how to respond.

• The leaders eyes here will keep his doors open tomorrow.

• This is the vision and action of WHAT you do, the widget you make, or the service you give.

2) Reading Vision

• Like a coach studies film, the leader studies where he can get better and where he can give “atta boys” to his followers.

• “Leaders are readers.” Dave Ramsey

• Checks the metrics: Leaders keep the score and know their numbers. The numbers don’t lie.

• This is the vision of HOW you do what you do.

3) Distance Vision

• Leaders ask “The Question Behind The Question.”

• Leaders dream the world they long to see, and plan the steps to get there.

• Leaders align with John Maxwell’s philosophy of “if there is HOPE in tomorrow, then there is POWER in today.”

• This is the vision of WHY. This is where the leader sees himself as having not just a job, but a calling.

Proverbs 28:19 sums it up better than I ever could: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”