Four fundamental characteristics of visionaries that alienate pragmatists.
3. Failing to recognise the importance of existing product infrastructure.
- Visionaries are building systems from the ground up. They are incarnating their vision.
4. Overall disruptiveness.
- From a pragmatist’s point of view, visionaries are the people who come in and soak up all the budget for their pet projects.
- “State-of-the-art”
- Visionaries, successful or not, don’t plan to stick.