What’s the difference between Mission and Vision?

For MISSION —– think: managing with greatness and untamed strength, improving everything daily.
For VISION —– think: leading with inspiration and courage, obsessed with future possibility, in a love affair with change.
MISSION will feed into the confidence of your organization by feeding this ever-present self-talk: “We can do this, and we are the ones ordained to do this, for we are the best at it.” Mission will churn out revolutionary ideas about the mundane, banishing mediocrity.
VISION creates that momentum of growing anticipation about the future, where change is embraced as a step closer to that very compelling picture of what’s coming next. The excitement about the future trumps any apprehension about the uncertain — change is recognized as the catalytic converter it is.
Turn them both into mantras that people actually say, beaming with pride as they say them. “This is my company, and I’m glad it is” is the emotion they evoke, shining in everyone’s eyes. Both mission and vision are alive; both evolve, both reinvent, both grow as you grow.
So tear down that plaque on the wall; you really don’t need it. Trumpet the voices of mission and vision instead.