The mission driven professionals….
I have been fortunate to be working with some highly skilled and ethically strong engineers who are always ready to do what it takes… to get on a dash… sprint through marathon after marathon… and get the job done in spite of all the constraints… and in spite of all the problems…. And this article today is dedicated to them….
It’s an ethic that cannot be purchased… no amount of praise can get them high, nor criticism lower their morale… for their only motivator is the mission… and to accomplish that, they are ever willing to do what it takes… to go those additional ten miles….
Nothing drives them like the inner passion to achieve what they set out to and that’s their mission… the pursuit for excellence that comes but naturally to them….
It’s not that they are bereft emotions, nor that they do not have the same mental fatigue and physical limitations that everyone else has… and it is definitely not like they like working for no money…. But their motivation comes from elsewhere…. It is not the superficial, transient drive that belongs with mercenaries… rather, the deep passion for doing big things and the value for their word that keeps them awake and alert and productive until their job is done!
All the greatness the world has ever seen can be attributed to the likes of those….
I have learnt that you cannot buy your way through to them… for the way to get them to do things is simply by running together with them…. You are then not igniting their latent spirit… simply redirecting it!
The mission driven professionals… And some of the ones I know most closely, make up my own little team….
Thank you for journeying together with me… I would trade you for none other!!!
I ask you now… would you be willing to be counted as one among them???
