Vision is the cheapest commodity in any organization. Everyone has one, most of them are interchangeable, and none of them are the thing standing between you and a result.
The constraint is never the idea
Walk into any strategy offsite and you will find no shortage of ambition. What is missing is rarely the destination. It is the capacity to get there: the people, the sequencing, the hundred small decisions that turn a slide into something shipped. Vision sets direction. Execution is the actual constraint, and constraints are where leaders earn their keep.
The pragmatist is often mistaken for someone with low ambition. The opposite is true. The pragmatist wants the result so badly that they refuse to confuse the elegant plan with the achievable one. They optimize for what ships, not for what sounds impressive in the room.
A vision that does not survive contact with your real constraints is not a strategy. It is a wish with better production values.
Optimize for what ships
Pragmatism in execution is a series of unglamorous choices. Cut the scope to what you can actually staff. Sequence the work so something real lands in weeks, not quarters. Trade the perfect solution for the one that runs on Monday. None of this photographs well, and all of it compounds.
I would rather have a modest plan the organization can absorb than a brilliant one it will quietly abandon. The first builds momentum and credibility. The second builds cynicism, the most expensive thing a transformation can accumulate.
Keep the vision; you need a direction worth the effort. But measure yourself on what crosses the finish line, because that is the only part your customers and your people will ever actually experience.