Yes, it is important to understand wise desire and unwise desire, and understand how achievement sometimes gets in the way of the process. I would be the last one to actually want you to let go of the wise desire of compassion, because this is what motivated the Buddha.
There's a difference between the desire to become something and the wish to heal suffering. If we get into desire for enlightenment it often brings up the ego. I want to achieve for myself or we may even go into the eight worldly conditions, desire for praise, fame, pleasure and gain. So it's important to base our efforts of wise desire on something that is important, the wish to heal suffering wherever we see it in ourselves and in others. From my understanding this will take us towards wanting to lessen the true causes of suffering. As well, examining the Four Noble Truths as we see it in the present moment and letting go of the causes for suffering.
Unwise desire tends to take us out of ourselves to looking for the cause of suffering in external conditions or looking for the happiness in external conditions. And this takes us off the path of doing what we can do within ourselves. So there is wise desire and unwise desire. The hindrance, when we're talking about desire, is sense desire. We're not talking about all desires being a hindrance. In fact, in the scriptures they have what they call in Pali "chanda", which is a kind of a wise desire for the purification of ourselves. And this is considered a spiritual wise desire. But it's not desire for the senses and the pleasures arising from the senses, which is part of the Five Hindrances. In fact, I believe none of you would be here if you didn't have wise desire.