Mission Driven: The Path to a Life of Purpose

Hayes, Mike

ISBN 10: 0306836513 / ISBN 13: 9780306836510

Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mission Driven: The Path to a Life of Purpose
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306836513
• ISBN 13: 9780306836510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

Former Navy SEAL commander, White House Fellow, and nonprofit and business leader Mike Hayes offers an inspiring playbook for understanding and achieving your most rewarding and purposeful life.

Mission Driven offers a practical guide for transition points: young people, recent graduates, professionals shifting to new roles, or people shifting to find new balance in their lives. It is divided into two sections: The Long Game (figuring out who you want to be, how you define success, and what kind of impact you’re looking to have in your own life and the world) and The Short Game (moving readers from the who to the how, taking the learnings they’ve gathered in the first half of the book and applying them toward building their lives and finding their next great opportunities).

Its lessons include:
ˇNot What You Want To Be, But Who You Want to Be
ˇThe Most Powerful Secret I Know: Helping Others Helps Us More
ˇGetting Comfortable Making Decisions
ˇFinding Enough In The Ways You Spend Your Time

Whether someone is at the beginning of their journey or, at any stage, looking for more, Mission Driven is a roadmap for discovering what drives you, and a playbook for translating those drives into opportunities. It is a book to help us satisfy our ambitions and our souls, filled with smart, empathetic guidance.

About the Author

MIKE HAYES is the former commanding officer of SEAL Team Two, leading a two-thousand-person Special Operations task force in southeastern Afghanistan. In addition to a twenty-year career as a SEAL, Mike was a White House fellow, served two years as director of defense policy and strategy at the National Security Council, and has worked directly with both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Beyond his military and government service, Mike is the founding board member of the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, and his own 501(c)(3), the 1162 Foundation, which has paid off twelve Gold Star widow mortgages to date. In the private sector, Mike has served in several C-level roles and is currently managing director at Insight Partners, a software investment firm with $90 billion of assets under management and 600+ portfolio companies. He lives in Sunapee, New Hampshire, and Westport, Connecticut, with his wife and daughter.