Are You Focused on Money or Results?

Traditionally, leaders, especially social entrepreneurs running a business, charity, or religious institution, are driven by passion and purpose. Many want to “save the dolphins” without building an infrastructure to accomplish their worthy mission…that’s focusing on passion.

Many entrepreneurs are in business to achieve financial gain…that’s focusing on money.

Successful leaders have a balanced approach to success. They provide value to others and receive income as a result of the value given.

Looking through this lens of balance allows a leader to review the classics, such as Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” and learn something very different…it’s not about money. Even Hill stated that financial wealth is at the bottom of his list of the attributes of wealth, because it was the least important of the traits.

In James Allen’s classic, “As a Man Thinketh,” he noted that we don’t attract what we need, we attract what we are.

How do you define success?

Does your team reflect your philosophy?