Walter V Murray CPA DBA PhDCEO, DIMES Strategic Leadership Community · Leadership Strategist & Trainer / Author & Speaker

Dreaming is Good - Planning is Better!!

Name: Dreaming is Good - Planning is Better!!
Uploaded: 2021-08-10T01:53:12+00:00
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Channel: Walter V Murray CPA DBA PhD
Description: In this masterclass excerpt, Speaker A introduces Dr. Moray and critiques the tendency among DEI and other leaders to prioritize charismatic, visionary…

10 Aug 2021 · 1 min

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In this masterclass excerpt, Speaker A introduces Dr. Moray and critiques the tendency among DEI and other leaders to prioritize charismatic, visionary dreaming over intentional strategic planning. The speaker argues that this overabundance of dreaming is not a deliberate choice but arises organically because dreaming is fashionable, vocal, visual, and emotionally compelling—exemplified by historic speeches like "I Have a Dream." While acknowledging that dreaming has value, the speaker warns that excessive dreaming can crowd out essential strategic planning, leading to under‑strategic execution.

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Now let's join the masterclass with Dr. Moray. It just seems that there is not enough strategic planning, but there's a lot of dreaming, and, and this is not intentional. I don't, I don't think that DEI leaders or leaders are intentionally trying to under-strategic plan and over-dream, right? I think it happens almost organically because dreaming is fashionable. It's vocal, it's visual, visible, it's passionate, it's charismatic, you know, just by the nature of dreaming. You know, think of the "I Have a Dream" speech. You know, it's that type of charisma that comes with a leader who is a visionary. And so sometimes leaders gravitate towards dreaming, and dreaming is good, but not when there is an overabundance of dreaming at the expense of strategic planning. You know, dreaming