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What does it mean?
Personal success is incomplete without community prosperity. Ambitions must include the needs of others to be truly meaningful.
In plain terms
Don't just seek your own success; ensure your community prospers too.
What can you take from it?
True ambition includes the welfare of the broader community, not just the self.

Where it applies

  • community building
  • policy making
  • team leadership

Putting it to work

  • include community goals in plans
  • measure collective success
  • support local needs

Questions to consider

  • How do you define success for others?
  • When does personal ambition harm the community?

Another view

Balancing personal and community goals can be logistically difficult.

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