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Dear MBA graduate business manager: if your mission is so unclear that your every last employee can’t get it intuitively (e.g., we sell hamburgers), then developing a mission statement is an exercise in navel-gazing futility.
If you need one, it’s already too late. If you develop one, it won’t help. But it will make you look busy!
ekke about 1 year ago
Dear MBA graduate business manager: if your mission is so unclear that your every last employee can’t get it intuitively (e.g., we sell hamburgers), then developing a mission statement is an exercise in navel-gazing futility.
If you need one, it’s already too late. If you develop one, it won’t help. But it will make you look busy!
Lennia Machen Premium Member about 1 year ago
I wonder what the mission statement is for the United States? It is no longer clear.
cuzinron47 about 1 year ago
Probably because they were failed missions.
CoffeeBob Premium Member about 1 year ago
After a lifetime in corporate America, I’ve found that Mission Statements are used, just rarely followed.