Is it possible that in different organizations and management styles that a
"mission statement" serves different purposes and, as a result, requires
different formats?
Anyone know of any research on that?
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From: "Carter McNamara" <
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: mission statements -- everyone has an opinion
> I remember in a graduate MBA course, two of my professors got into a
> heated argument about what went into a mission statement. Some of the
> students ended up getting into the argument, as well. My learning was
> that there are many perspectives on the concept of a mission statement.
>
> After about 25 years of working in various capacities with strategic
> planning, I find that organizations seem to spend far more effort
> articulating the mission statement than they do in actually following it
> -- which is one of the major problems with strategic planning, in
> general.
>
> If you're interested, there's a variety of views in the Free Management
> Library about designing mission statements. Go to
>
http://www.mapnp.org/library/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm
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