When working with entrepreneurs, one of the most difficult things consultants, advisors, and mentors have to do is tell their hopeful visionaries when an idea doesn’t have a reasonable chance of success, or simply is not viable. Such advice isn’t meant to de-motivate, or to squash the dream, but rather to ground what is likely a “rose colored glasses� perspective in the realities of the marketplace.The horns on this dilemma, as you might imagine, are reality and vision. And the challenge for advisors is in knowing how to blend in the right amount of reality so that the vision keeps just enough of a healthy rose tint, without blurring the existence of the challenges ahead.
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