Being, by instinct, an engineer, business person, and a problem solver does not readily equip one to do much vision casting.  People like me see the world in which they live, and perhaps a few years into the future, but have a really hard time seeing over the horizon.  We know that as leaders we have a responsibility to provide guidance, direction, and goals that inspire those around them to invest into ‘a vision’, but how?

Years ago, I did catch ‘a vision’ cast by someone else.

Louisville, KY, the city of my birth, had something that was really appreciated by its citizens, very large natural parks.  The most beautiful park was Cherokee.  A wide stream ran the length of the park with large, very old trees all around.  In the spring of 1974 a t...