Brad Feld, one of the founders of the Foundry Group put out this post this morning: http://bit.ly/ntrG2j
While the post is very good and reminds me of the Positioning concept, one of the comments from a reader struck me as a huge insight "I have found that you cannot predict the future, nor react to it. The only way to success is to direct the future to your strategy". This insight reminded me of a quote by George Bernard Shaw when he said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man". Only the most unreasonable man would think the world's rules don't apply to him, and yet that is what world changing entrepreneurs do. They assume that the world's rules don't apply to them and have the guts and determination to face the consequences for that thinking.
This adapting the world to one's strategy is also why most others don't see what the visionary is talking about, they think that the rules of the world are immutable and therefore the vision is flawed. Only the visionary can see it because they are actively adapting the world to their vision and changing the future.
