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Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

Good morning.

Many leaders make the mistake of equating inspiration with implementation.

They assume if they provide their team with a grand vision and some chest beating motivation

that all will be well.

Here's a great analogy that I read recently.

It's like an art teacher who sets his students down in an alpine meadow and asks them to reproduce

the glorious landscape.

The big picture is inspiring, long swaying grass, white asps with shimmery golden leaves,

a brook that winds toward the backdrop of snow cap mountains.

But merely seeing the picture does not equip the students to skillfully depict one blade

of grass on the canvas.

You see, without instruction in painting each small detail in that big picture, their

efforts will look nothing like the picturesque meadow before them.

To become great artists who can replicate big picture, the students must learn to focus

on the small particulars.

Nowhere in life is this true than in human relations.

Let me give you a practical example.

A sales manager at a department store casted a grand vision to double women's shoe sales

in June.

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