A best selling author, Mike offers readers valuable insights through his experiences in the SEALs, White House, C-Suite, and Boardroom.
All profits from Mike's books go to The 1162 Foundation, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to paying off mortgages for Gold Star families.
Mission Driven
AN 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:
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Not What You Want To Be, But Who You Want to Be
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The Most Powerful Secret I Know: Helping Others Helps Us More
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Getting Comfortable Making Decisions
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Finding 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.
PRAISE FOR MISSION DRIVEN
"I first met Mike nearly 20 years ago and can’t imagine anyone who has led a more Mission Driven life. His words are a powerful blueprint for leading with integrity, resilience, and purpose. This book challenges us to think bigger than ourselves, to serve with conviction, and to live a life that truly matters. A must-read for anyone striving to make an impact—in business and in life."
Jamie Dimon, CEO & Chairman JPMorganChase
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"Mike has lived what he writes. Mission Driven is more than a leadership playbook— it’s a reminder that the most impactful people operate with deep conviction, service, and heart.”
Lynn Martin, President, NYSE
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"Mission Driven is a powerful guide to leading with purpose, toughness, and humility. Mike understands what it takes to build elite teams and strong cultures, and I’ve seen personally how his wisdom can pay off—for both individuals and organizations. This book delivers Mike’s teachings in a way that will hit home for athletes, coaches, leaders, and anyone who strives to achieve their best."
Dan Hurley, Head Coach & two-time National Champion, UConn Basketball
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"Mike is an honor graduate of the ultimate school— the college of life and death. If you want to live a life few can match, take on Mike’s challenge. Choose to be Mission Driven."
Command Master Chief Britt Slabinski, Medal of Honor Recipient
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"Mike has helped teach me how to have a pure and intentional outlook on daily life; he understands that our every action shapes outcomes, and uses this to make the world just a bit better every day."
Sam LaPorta, Pro-Bowl Tight End, Detriot Lions
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“Hayes draws from his experiences as a SEAL commanding officer for this intelligent and actionable guide to living a meaningful life… Readers stuck at a professional crossroads would do well to pick this up.”
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“Doing the right thing is a matter of honor to the author, and he demonstrates a clear-headed approach to life. Readers willing to honestly examine their lives and find their true centers are in the right place.”
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Never Enough
In Never Enough, Mike Hayes—former Commander of SEAL Team TWO—helps readers apply high-stakes lessons about excellence, agility, and meaning across their personal and professional lives.
Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. He’s jumped out of a building rigged to explode, helped amputate a teammate’s leg, and made countless split-second life-and-death decisions. He’s written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in case those were the last words of his they’d ever read. Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.
Over his many years of leadership, he has always strived to be better, to contribute more, and to put others first. That’s what makes him an effective leader, and it’s the quality that he’s identified in all of the great leaders he’s encountered. That continual striving to lift those around him has filled Mike’s life with meaning and purpose, has made him secure in the knowledge that he brings his best to everything he does, and has made him someone others can rely on.
In Never Enough, Mike Hayes recounts dramatic stories and offers battle- and boardroom-tested advice that will motivate readers to do work of value, live lives of purpose, and stretch themselves to reach their highest potential.
PRAISE FOR NEVER ENOUGH
"I’ve known Mike for over two decades and seen his incredible leadership and dedication to the SEALs, our military, and our nation. Mike’s experiences and wisdom make Never Enough a valuable read that I strongly recommend to anyone looking to live a more extraordinary life."
William McRaven, Former Commander, USSOCOM
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"Mike Hayes’s great strength is his understanding that leadership comes from putting others first. As a result, Never Enough is the book you didn’t know you needed — filled with constructive ways to be better leaders and better people. Here’s the recipe for uniting and strengthening our nation. Here’s how to unlock excellence."
Brad Meltzer, Author of The Lincoln Conspiracy
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“Being an entrepreneur takes guts, grit, and the willingness to take a risk — but it's nothing like the risks Mike Hayes has taken during his extraordinary life. Whether you're building a business or building a life, Never Enough is an incredible manual for getting the best out of yourself, your team, and your community. Just like Mike is a one-of-a-kind achiever, his book is a one-of-a-kind must-read.”
Neil Blumenthal, CEO of Warby Parker
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“I was inspired by Never Enough and Mike Hayes’s determination to constantly push himself to achieve excellence...Mike writes with humility, candor, and a sharp sense of humor; this is a must read for anyone hoping to learn how to lead through adversity and bring out the best in themselves and their teams.”
David McCormick, CEO of Bridgewater Associates
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“In business, it's critical to think strategically, move quickly, and be ready to pivot at any moment —in other words, you have to think like a SEAL. In Never Enough, Mike Hayes applies the lessons he's learned as a SEAL to the business world. It's essential reading for anyone looking to reach the next level.”
Steve Case, former CEO & Chairman of AOL
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“Never Enough is the ultimate playbook for leading a winning team, whether in a boardroom or on the field. Mike Hayes's leadership style was forged on the frontlines as a Navy SEAL, but the lessons that he's distilled in his book could be applied to every person — players, coaches, and beyond — I
work with on a daily basis.”
Kirk Ferentz, Head Football Coach, University of Iowa
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“Never Enough is a brilliant and wonderfully insightful compilation of stories and timeless lessons...as we confront a future filled with both remarkable promise and unsettling uncertainties, the book is a reminder that leading a life of excellence, agility and meaning is the best way to not lose sight of the fact that in all of our human endeavors, the journey is more important than the destination.”
Frank D'Souza, Co-Founder of Cognizant
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“Part thrilling adventure tales, part sensible, widely applicable advice for working with a team, Hayes' first book should find a wide audience on all levels of the corporate ladder.”
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