--- title: No Wind Is a Good Wind | daily.dev description: A coaching piece for engineering leaders (CTOs, VPEs) who can articulate their roadmap but not their company vision. Using a diagnostic flowchart, it walks... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/no-wind-is-a-good-wind-hifei0opr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: No Wind Is a Good Wind | daily.dev og:description: A coaching piece for engineering leaders (CTOs, VPEs) who can articulate their roadmap but not their company vision. Using a diagnostic flowchart, it walks... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/no-wind-is-a-good-wind-hifei0opr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HiFeI0oPr.png og:image:alt: No Wind Is a Good Wind og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # No Wind Is a Good Wind **[Tech Lead Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/techleaddigest)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A coaching piece for engineering leaders (CTOs, VPEs) who can articulate their roadmap but not their company vision. Using a diagnostic flowchart, it walks through four scenarios: vision exists but you're not in on it, no company vision exists, you have the vision but your team doesn't, and everyone has the vision. Each scenario comes with concrete actions — from elbowing into the right rooms to facilitating strategy sessions to instilling purpose through intent-based communication. The core argument is that a leader without vision optimizes locally, making teams faster at building the wrong things, and that vision only has value when it actively serves as a prioritization tiebreaker. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [You cannot manage your peers](https://daily.dev/posts/you-cannot-manage-your-peers-orcckheik) · Tech Lead Digest · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Your engineering team looks healthy. 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