A Dream With a Deadline

Jacques Horovitz and Anne-Valerie Ohlsson-Corboz take JFK's goal of putting a man on the moon within ten years as their model of a dream with a deadline. They argue that a brief, easily grasped business vision can inspire people and focus them on shared objectives, and that the vision must then be turned into action, and they offer managers and leaders practical tools for that step. Working through the book leaves the reader with a three-page written summary and a one-page visual map of where a person, team or company is headed. A self-diagnosis exercise shows where to concentrate energy, time and resources. Pearson Education published it in 2007.

A reader of The CEO Library named it, through an anonymous form, as one of the three best books they read in 2019.