Failed Plans vs. Failed Vision

I think it is important that I continue to learn as a leader; being open to blind spots in my leadership and intentionally seeking out new information. This morning I was reading Andy Stanley's, "Visioneering" and he was writing about the difference between a plan and a vision. Andy wrote this, "It is easy to lose sight of the vision when your plans don't work out. Failed plans always have a backlash of negative emotion... In most cases those who are watching from the outside will find it impossible to distinguish between the plan and the vision. they see them as one and the same. The death of one is the death of the other... For that reason, when a plan fails, the vision must be recast." p. 157

As I read this simple reminder that a plan and a vision are not the same I realized that at times I lack the courage to enact a plan because of the assumption that if the plan (attempt) failed then the vision was a failure. I also have intuitively known that when others see a failed plan they begin to lose heart/focus when the plan falls flat and momentum is then lost. 

Leadership takes courage; courage to potentially fail when attempting to attain the vision that God has laid on your heart. Failed plans are not the death of a vision... but failing to plan may be. Now, to the drawing board to create a plan that may or may not fail, but will take me one more step toward the vision.