Personal versus maket success

We each have our own internal logic about success.  This relates to our personalities and skills. How could you evolve from an information broker into a knowledge broker?  How could you become more adaptable to the marketplace and provide more personalized services that reframe your value? What can you do to show people what you can offer that isn't common-place? 

Consider computer programmers.  They understand the logic of what's possible in certain conditions.   They develop software that has widespread, practical uses.  This may give them a sense of accomplishment, but they may unaware how to promote a profitable, market success.

Consider creative people need to learn to ask the right questions, to observe behaviour cues, elicit and intuit human needs.  They are empathic and understand what is desired before a desire surfaces in the marketplace.  These people find unexpected market opportunities for what the computer programmers devise. When logical thinkers pair up with creative thinkers, they may create a greater sense of personal and marketable success. 

Businesses are supposed to create value over time to bring a financial return to shareholders.  Depending on your contribution to a business,  whether you're an investor, an employee, a business owner, a customer, you would see value and success differently.  Success can be seen as reflected in customer loyalty, while it could also be seen in the form of profit, increasing share price, greater popularity, better accessibility, and even more competitive prices.  

One kind of success is not more important or better than another.  Each person creates a hierarchy.  Every great idea comes not only in making a discovery, but also in how the discovery can be used.  Mutual learning and innovation tends to be serendipitous, and grows out of casual exchanges without high pressure.  The impetus for innovation comes from each of us.