Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.