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.
Expect poison from the standing water.
There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
Living _x000D_ consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and _x000D_ responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the _x000D_ moment.
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