As an entrepreneur, you are your organization’s visionary - the creator of the dream, and the energy and spirit behind its fulfillment. As the operator of the business you’ve created to deliver your dream, you are the steady hand, the voice of reason, the challenge master, and the bull’s eye where the proverbial buck stops.The great French writer, Victor Hugo could have been talking about us when he wrote, “The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.”
In your role as an entrepreneur, you have greater need of the ideal, which is your vision, your passion. As the operator of your business, it is by the real that you exist, which are the operating fundamentals you must practice.
You must be able to move successfully between these two dimensions as you create, operate and grow your businesses successfully. Too much ideal and you have no critical mass. Too much real and you have nothing new, too little excitement, and probably not much fun.
The ideal and the real: Create - operate - have fun.
