How Can Leaders Overcome the Blurry Vision Bias? Identifying an Antidote to the Paradox of Vision Communication

@article{Carton2018HowCL,
  title={How Can Leaders Overcome the Blurry Vision Bias? Identifying an Antidote to the Paradox of Vision Communication},
  author={Andrew M. Carton and Brian J Lucas},
  journal={Academy of Management Journal},
  year={2018}
}
Evidence suggests that organizational leaders can inspire employees by communicating a vision of the future with image-based rhetoric—words and phrases that are readily envisioned in the mind’s eye... 
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