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“Have an impact on your clients; i.e., do effective work. Make money for yourself as the primary shareholder. Create a culture that complements what you care about and fosters what you are hoping to accomplish. Enjoy your work. There’s an interplay among these four things, and every day you make decisions that prioritize one over the other, which is appropriate. Those priorities can change on a daily basis, too, but when you look at how they balance out over long periods of time, where do you start and what might you be aiming for? Let me suggest the order that might work best over the lifetime of a business, in descending order of importance: Make money. Do effective work. Build a strong culture. Enjoy your work.”
― The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
― The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
“Your job is to correctly assess a situation and then give clients the very best possible tools to effect change on their own.”
― Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice
― Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice
“Values are the non-negotiables in our belief system that would never change regardless of the setting or external pressures. They are best discerned by observing our actions, which reflect our character. Values stem from who we are. They would show up in whatever sort of business we were running. Purpose is the reason why our particular organization exists. (Later in life, the same values might lead to a different purpose, mediated through a different business.) Mission is how the organization will achieve the purpose for our existence, based on the values that we share. (Any given purpose could lead to multiple missions. Your mission is how you choose to implement your purpose.) Vision is the destination. It’s what the end result will look like if my values lead to a certain purpose whose mission my organization exists to fulfill. It connects purpose with impact. (This is the huge, wide-ranging vision that drives you forward. It’s aspirational in nature.)”
― The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
― The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
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