The 2nd V in the IVVSS Strategic Planning Process

In the middle of your planning process is your Vision. It isn't the "end" of what you are engaged in as a church, non-profit or commercial enterprise. As has been said so well by Thomas A. Edison:

“Vision without execution is hallucination.” 

We'll get to execution later. But if you want to jump to matters of execution in the local church there is no better source than UnSeminary a blog and podcast published by my brother Rich. 

Vision's oft quoted definition is "a picture of the preferred future your enterprise is attempting to bring about" or something thereabouts. I like what Bill Hybels said about Vision at the WillowCreek Leadership Summit this past summer: