Where vision stories go wrong, and the payoff

Four ways vision stories fail, and you can catch each in your draft.

Four ways vision stories fail

The payoff

Now find the before recording, if you made one in Part 2, Lesson 1.1. If you did not, think back to how you would have answered on the day you started, and hold that in mind.

Play it back if you have it. Then read your built Purpose Story and your built Vision Story aloud, one after the other. The before is a flat statement and a wish, stapled together, the way almost everyone answers that question. The after is a fight you can feel and a future you can picture, in your own voice, about your own work. The distance between those two recordings is exactly what you built in this part. If you can hear it, so can every room you walk into from now on.

One last lesson: how the pair works together, and where the system goes next.