In business, as in other endeavours, the essence of leadership is positive Influence.

At its core, positive Influence is about inspiring people to take positive actions...where 'positive actions' means mean actions directed toward desired long-term goals.

In addition to the ability to inspire positive actions, a leader must have a pleasing personality (or at the very least an acceptable personality) in order to inspire other people to be motivated in positive ways...i.e., be motivated to take actions aimed at desired & shared goals. 

Inspiring People and Influencing them to take positive Actions toward desired & shared Goals...toward a shared & vivid Vision.

• this is the way to grow personal wealth through business
• this is the work of business Leaders

Your power resides in your strengths.

Your power either energizes action or it rests inactive.

Your power is the sum total of your talents, the opportunities you've had to put those talents to work at tasks, your knowledge related to those talents, and the time you've taken to practice and develop work-skills based on those talents.

Your power is put to good use when you employ your strengths through good habits.

Good habits, naturally, take you toward your long-term goals and vision.

And, of course, if you do not have long-term goals and vision then your power rests inactive and your strengths do not realize their potential.

Most people fail because they quit. Most people quit because they get frustrated. Most people get frustrated because they don't know how to measure success. Most people don't know how to measure success because they never took time to think about how they might be able to accomplish that measurement.

Most people don't break work down into bite-sized tasks which can be measured.

When we break success into bite-sized pieces we can measure it. When we measure actions we can see and celebrate our small successes. When we celebrate small successes we self motivate. When we self motivate we increase our chances of ultimate success.

When we measure them and know our small successes are accumulating we gain confidence.

When we gain confidence we increase the likelihood of ultimate success.

This is the sort of logic that allows us to understand the value embedded in goals, especially when vivid long-term vision is meshed with measurable short-term goals.