Vision is a specific destination, a picture of a desired future. Purpose is similar to a direction, a general heading. Purchase is abstract. Vision is concrete. Purpose is "advancing man's capability to explore the heavens." Vision is "a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s." Purpose is "being the best I can be." Vision is breaking the four minute mile.
Nothing happens until there is vision. But it is equally true that a vision with no underlying sense of purpose, no calling, is just a good idea - all "sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Conversely, purpose without vision has no sense of appropriate scale.
Taken from "The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organisation" by Peter M. Senge.
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