In the book, I speak a lot about the vision and how the idea, of which the written form is the proposal, is a portion or a “snapshot” of the vision. The vision that you have is four-dimensional; you see how it will, or should, play out over time in terms of the results, the outputs and outcomes. Your vision is, or should be, greater than any one funding opportunity, though it might be started and urged on by what had been determined as a need, and therefore funding.

But the question is, how ar...