Bill Gallagher walks through the first four steps of his Eightfold Path: dream, vision, purpose, and mission. He and co-founder Tom asked themselves these questions early on to clarify why they were in business together. A framework for leadership teams to align on what matters most.
We came up with a definition for what an entrepreneur is. An entrepreneur is a dreamer, a thinker, a storyteller, and a leader. The dreamer has a dream, the thinker has a vision, the storyteller has a purpose, and the leader has a mission. The first four steps of what we called the Eightfold Path. So we worked on our company to discover what our dream was, our vision was, our purpose was, and our mission was. And Tom and I were conversed about that radically in the first number of months with our company. What's our dream? What's our vision? What's our purpose? What's our mission? What's our dream? What's our vision? What's our purpose? What's our mission? We had to get that right, because until and unless we got that right, we wouldn't know why we were in business together.
