You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.
The great majority of executives tend to focus downward. They are occupied with efforts rather than with results. The effective executive focuses on contribution. He looks outward towards goals.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human