Whether they are mom-and-pop shops or giant corporations, many successful businesses have a clearly defined vision and mission statement. These are key to inspiring your team, focusing on achieving a ...

Keep mission statements under 25 words with strong, specific language. Use action-oriented verbs, avoid generalities and ...

Crafting clear mission and vision statements is critical to shaping company identity, motivating employees and guiding decision-making. A mission statement defines the current scope and purpose of the ...

The mission of the Saint Louis University School of Education is to improve our world by inspiring educators as leaders of change, with and for others, through intentional relationships and responsive ...

Let’s call it what it is: organizational theater. Enormous time and energy go into crafting the perfect string of aspirational words, but rarely are those words embedded into actual behaviors, ...

After I made some key leadership hires, we met together as a group and did a lot of brainstorming. We thought about everything we wanted to be and what we didn’t want to be. We looked at our staff and ...

Make time in your early days in a new job to get alignment around a Burning Imperative - mission, vision, values, objectives, goals, strategies and plans. Experienced, successful leaders inevitably ...

Defining your hospital’s ‘mission, vision and values’ can boost employee engagement, encourage participation in hospital initiatives and send a clear message to the community about your direction.

Understanding these key components will assist you in articulating your organisation’s big picture purpose, activities and end goals. Vision is the highest-level purpose of the organisation. It ...

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." These lyrics to George Harrison's song "Any Road" are as true in business as in any other walk of life. Managers must define and ...

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Mission and vision statements can be great means to give an organization focus, coherence, and direction. But often they don’t. And if not, the time and money spent on formulating them may become a ...