To have a mission is to have a unifying focus for your career.

What’s the mission? Planning begins with mission analysis. Leaders must identify clear directives for the team. Once they themselves understand the mission, they can impart this knowledge to their key leaders and frontline troops tasked with executing the mission. A broad and ambiguous mission results in lack of focus, ineffective execution, and mission creep. To prevent this, the mission must be carefully refined and simplified so that it is explicitly clear and specifically focused to achieve the greater strategic vision for which that mission is a part.

I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don't do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.

remove individual ego and personal agenda. It’s all about the mission. How can you best get your team to most effectively execute the plan in order to accomplish the mission?

Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.

Mission staff are the team behind the team always working to prepare athletes for success. With such a strong team supporting them, I'm confident our athletes will be poised to achieve their personal best

A great sense of mission guides us. A great sense of mission guides me. I act day and night in your name, on your behalf, on behalf of our country, on behalf of our people, on behalf of our land!

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

most of a leadership team's objectives should be collective ones.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

Every enterprise requires commitment to common goals and shared values. Without such commitment there is no enterprise; there is only a mob. The enterprise must have simple, clear, and unifying objectives. The mission of the organization has to be clear enough and big enough to provide common vision. The goals that embody it have to be clear, public, and constantly reaffirmed. Management’s first job is to think through, set, and exemplify those objectives, values, and goals.

It's not about me, it's about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.

We had one common mission which was to win the tournament. We worked as a team, game by game, as the coach told us and here are the results.

Most corporate mission statements are worthless.... [Corporations] often formulate necessities as objectives: For example, 'to achieve sufficient profit.' This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently