Every organization, family or community has them both; builders and climbers.
The builders are those with a long term vision for the prosperity of all for generations. They lay down their lives and go to work. They pioneer, they innovate, they course correct, they carry vision; putting the interests of the business, organization or community ahead of theirs.
They build systems that help scale the vision and reduce the organization’s dependency on them. They are building a legacy.
Then there are the climbers. These ones are into self promotion and think they have the divine right to get to the “top” of wherever they find themselves. Theirs is to climb up or through whatever systems others have built, chiefly to their personal advantage.
Anyone who does a good job in an established business, organization or community will be promoted, so that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about those who cause divisions, wreck havoc and get others to focus on the wrong things as long as it gives them an advantage. They think short term and only through the prism of personal advancement.
Question is, which one are you? In what ways have you been a builder or a climber? What changes do you need to make to shift from climbing to building?
Happy clim… oops, BUILDING!
Mosze