PEOPLE MATTER

Judas Iscariot is the perfect poster boy for scheming, despicable, selfish, greedy people--people who don't truly understand how their behaviors can backfire and further the vision and mission the very people they sought to destroy. He is the poster boy for those who, consumed with material things, power and position, forget how much people matter.

If direction is no longer clear, AND followers, workers, teams, etc., are lacking or have lost a visionary of integrity, "moving forward" can be two of the scariest words in the English language, inspiring apprehension, and an inclination to go in the opposite direction-- or risk going it alone in ANY direction. More important than personally knowing, working closely with, or benefiting from the resources or notoriety of a visionary, is to fully embrace their vision and work enthusiastically to bring their mission to fruition. Bringing blight or shame to it would never occur to anyone who has even a remote understanding of the mission, the vision, and the visionary's ethics, wants and wishes.
Any tangible thing that results from the implementation of the mission is never more valuable than the people who implemented it. No people? No mission, no vision.
What is in the heart and mind of the visionary is the difference between contributing to something mediocre, self-serving, and temporary, and something phenomenal, revolutionary, and lasting. It is so critical that visionaries are surrounded, not by opportunists, thieves, liars, bullies, cons, or those driven by jealousy and covetousness, but co-laborers, servants, even, who will not undermine the visionary, or usurp/alter the vision for their own purposes, thus destroying its integrity. Visionaries need those who will faithfully, unselfishly and diligently keep the vision, and all that it births, alive and well.
It is probably good that some visionaries are not witnesses to the dismantling/destruction of their mission and vision by those who never fully understood or respected either, or knew what their role in it was supposed to be. Even when a visionary dies, their mission and vision, if in the right hands, will go on. In the wrong hands it will become strange, scary, and deformed--void of it's former self, except for destructible, superficial attributes.