People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
Interpretation
A meaningful mission drives motivation, while achieving results without purpose leads to emptiness.
Frances Hesselbein highlights the dual importance of having a mission and achieving results. While pursuit without accomplishment can lead to disillusionment, the opposite is equally true: achieving results devoid of a clear mission can feel hollow and unfulfilling. True fulfillment comes from aligning one's achievements with a meaningful purpose.
In practice
In a motivational speech, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of aligning career goals with personal values.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way.
What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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