A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.
If they're committed to the mission statement of the RSC, they're going to be happy with me as their chair. If they're committed to another vision, then they may not be happy with me.
We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.
When I was a manager, I was incredibly results-driven - on a mission at all times.
I don't hate people. I just accept missions.
My father was not going to let me sit back and just consume my blessings. He wanted me to contribute, and to do that, you have to be mission-oriented.
There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.
Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself.
Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to step up, not step back, creating the kinds of mission-oriented public organizations that will enable us to tackle climate change - as ambitious as those that got us to the moon. It also requires the financial sector to be less short-term since we know that short-term finance has distorted incentives and directions in areas like biotechnology.
There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal.
Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.
I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.
A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
