Decoding Ambition: The Instinct Driving the World’s Top Leaders.

✨ Your ambition is a feeling that is expressed in your thoughts and actions. Ambitious people are instinctively guided by it. It is not a goal or a vision, but rather something urgent, promising and valuable that simply must be pursued. Naturally. Ambition wants to make the world a better place.

✨ Those who have ambition are confident in themselves. They do not compare themselves to others, but admire them for their specific skills.

✨ Ambition is a phenomenon of self-interest, a project of self-exploration.

✳️ Does this only exist in creative professions? No, whether it’s mechanical engineering, data analysis, cancer research, business management or top management consulting, ambition is always driven by what someone finds exciting about themselves: That’s a great idea of mine, I’ve never seen it that way before, I have to pursue that and talk to XYZ about it, what X said really excited me, I want to learn more about that, my client needs to know about these findings, I have to discuss that with my client right away… and so it goes on and on.
✳️ Your ambition never rests and never ends; it is geared towards further development. There is MORE. Much more.

Expanding on the insights from this AMBITION post: Discover the full insights in our book, Ambition: How Great Careers Succeed. Dive deeper into the hidden rules of top-level success here:

You are ambitious. So are we, and we are at your side.
Yours, Dorothea Assig and Dorothee Echter