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.
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.
So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]
I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.
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