The pressure and focus on bottom lines for a manager is tremendous. The manager spends the entire day in number crunching and taking decisions purely on the basis of optimum profitability. While this may seem quite good, the manager may actually be losing money for the organization by losing focus on a broader and more valuable aspect of vision and leadership.

World class organizations and managements are those that while being profitable have also a great vision. Everyone is very clear about the direction in which the organizations is headed and willingly contribute towards achievement of those goals and visions. The sharing of vision is so effective that most of the employees and more so the management believes that it is their vision and not the organizations.

None of these great organizations have bottom line as a vision or mission statement. The vision is something larger and so powerful that they result ultimately in healthy bottom lines.

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