Backcast
Backcast. Paint a futuristic picture in your mind of how you want things to look a year, two years, five years from now. Buy a calendar and change all the dates so that 2005 becomes, say, 2010. Make a reverse timetable showing key events that you would like to see happen. This, not some dusty plaque on the wall, is the way to harness the power of a corporate vision.