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Richard Brody has over 30 years experience and expertise in consultative marketing and sales, management, organizational, and hotel conference and convention organization, management and negotiation. ...

The most successful individuals, those that have contributed most to their organizations, their communities, and to society as a whole, have not aimed for or sought success. Rather, they have a dream, which they have nurtured into a vision, and strove to reach a goal or goals that they have set, to help achieve and/ or reach that vision. While success has often been the result, those that strive simply for success often neglect the essential process, and thus become inflexible and do not adapt to changing circumstances, nor do those people handle failure or adversity particularly well. Thomas Edison famously credited his thousands of failed experiments (failures) as leading to his successful and important inventions. Albert Einstein may have put it best when he wrote, "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

Some believe that if one does not strive for success that he sets himself up for failure. However, I feel that in most cases the opposite is often closer to the truth, that is, that adversity is part of the "growth" experience, and if one learns from his failures, and uses the knowledge productively, that he will be a more valuable individual in the long run. Often, those who merely strive for success don't get there because they are often seeking the credit without doing the work, nor taking the necessary steps. Seeking success, as the goal, is often more an egocentric approach than conversely planning thoroughly based on a dream that becomes a vision, and then working diligently to create and implement an action plan. This action plan must focus on its goal, which must be the value it provides in the particular circumstance.

1. Take for example someone in a leadership position in an organization. When they state as their goal, being successful or having a successful administration, this rarely has any true and worthwhile meaning. In order for this leader to have a meaningful and/ or important goal, it must be one that advances things for others, providing a value or importance for the individual or the organization as a whole. Unfortunately, far few leaders seem to possess this way of thinking.

2. President John Kennedy famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for country?" He later asked people to consider what together we could all do to advance the cause of freedom. Clearly, President Kennedy understood the difference between a value- based goal, and just aiming for success.

Surely, most people would prefer being successful to failing. However, it is quite important to understands and to realize that the success will come as a result of the value and importance of the goal and the mission, and not merely as the primary goal. Leaders must focus on their vision, and assure that it creates value to their organization.

Richard Brody has over 30 years consultative sales, marketing, training, managerial, and operations experience. He has trained sales and marketing people in numerous industries, given hundreds of seminars, appeared as a company spokesperson on over 200 radio and television programs, and regularly blogs on real estate, politics, economics, management, leadership, negotiations, conferences and conventions, etc. Richard has negotiated, arranged and/ or organized hundreds of conferences and conventions. Richard is a Senior Consultant with RGB Consultation Services, an Ecobroker, a Licensed Buyers Agent (LBA) and Licensed Salesperson in NYS, in real estate. Richard Brody has owned businesses, been a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Development, as well as a consultant. Richard has a Consulting Website ( http://tinyurl.com/rgbcons ); a blog ( http://tinyurl.com/rgbstake ); and can be followed on Twitter.

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