Leadership: Putting all your eggs in one basket

One of Napoleon Hill's principles of success is to find your Definite Chief Aim.  In his book Law of Success:  The 21st-Centry Edition, Revised and Updated (2003, edited by Ann Hartley and Bill Hartley), he touch on why a Definite Chief Aim is important to a leader.

All great leaders base their Leadership on a Definite Chief Aim.  Follower are willing followers when they know their leader is a person with a Definite Chief Aim who has the courage to back up that purpose with action.  Even a balky horse know when a driver with a Definite Chief Aim takes hold of the reins, and it yields to that driver.  

Andrew Carnegie's advice was:  "Place all your eggs in one basket adn then watch the basket to see that no one kicks it over."  By that he meant, of course, that we should no dissipate nay of our energies by engaging in sidelines.  Carnegie was a sound economist and he know that most people would do well if they harnessed and directed their energies so that some one thing would be done well.

Leaders always have numerous demands on their time. They have to decide when to say "no", when to say "yes", and when to say "more!"  Having a Definite Chief Aim is important in guiding those decisions.