Often too many leaders get tunnel vision on achieving the financial results for the company that they are pursuing and forget about the human side of the equation.  While results are important and the life-blood of the organization, it is not the only thing.  Leaders in business also need to be concerned about two other things, both human related.  The first is that the results of the organization need to be rewritten and expanded beyond simply the financial results that have been the ubiquitous pursuit of leaders and organizations for decades to include the development of its human resources.  Companies and organizations need to be measured about how well they have developed the talents of each individual within the company and how they have assisted these people in achieving their fullest potential.  This is a result that has been overlooked and discarded in the past, but which may become more important, or at least equally as important, to the financial results in the future.

Secondly, there needs to be stronger accountability or organizations on how they achieve the results that they do.  While the focus on ESG metrics (Environment, Social and Governance) begin to look at this part of the equation a little closer, ESG metrics and goals are insufficiently defined at this point to include all the metrics on how the corporate results are achieved and especially when it comes to individuals, personal growth and development and the achievement of one's fullest potential.  In addition, corporate ethics needs to be strengthened and improved as a measure of how organizations achieve the results they pursue.  No longer should the goal be to maximize financial returns as the leadership cry in the 1980s and 1990s was, but a more broad-based scorecard that includes the growth, development and security of the organization's people.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver

We are limited not by our abilities but by our vision. Anonymous