Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Of missionaries and visionaries

(re-post from my old blog.. feels as current today as it did then)

This is not my original thinking; it was seeded in my mind recently by a treasured advisor (Thanks Randy), but it has remained with me, resonated and is bubbling out.

According to Wikipedia:

a Visionary is a person with a clear, distinctive and specific (in some details) vision of the future, usually connected with advances in technology or social/political arrangements”

Missionary: "mission" is derived from the Latin missionem (nom. missio), meaning "act of sending" or mitto, mittere, literally meaning "to send" or "to dispatch” in summary a missionary “gets us there”.

We need visionaries; but we can’t get there without missionaries; “there is a promised treasure” means nothing without the “and here is how you get to it, let me show you”.

Social Media/Networking, like many other spaces, has plenty of visionaries. We need them to also become, or be complemented with, missionaries… yes, it is a dirty job (missionary evokes the image of that person that made mistakes. was chased, misunderstood, mistreated, etc.) but without them we wouldn’t get there.

What do you think?

Filiberto Selvas

Filiberto.Selvas@Gmail.Com

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