When we are becoming successful for the first time in our careers or business, we are hungry, we appreciate and celebrate our wins, and are eager to grow. Once we are “successful”, and the pace of relative advancement slows, we can become bored, complacent, and lose the edge that got us there.
You have to stay hungry and on the offense while maintaining what you have built so far. The leadership job changes, but the drive forward shouldn’t. String together successful years, and build on them, and don’t mess it up.
Becoming successful is one trick. Staying successful is another.