CHAPTER TWO
REDEFINING SUCCESS FOR YOURSELF
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligentpeople and the affection of children…to leave the world abetter place…to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your first job as a hands-off manager is to manage your inner life. It is impossible to mentor others toward success if you haven’t done it within yourself. Hands-off management begins at home in the mind of the mentor.
So how do we make sure we become successful? Most people never succeed because their definition of success always includes some change in the outer world, and the outer world is so hard to change. So you might begin by redefining success for yourself. ...
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