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Mission Incomprehensible.(advertising agencies)
A company's mission statement is meant to capture the strengths that set it apart from its rivals, but they often end up as a lecture in corporate double-speak. John Morrish puts ten of adland's finest to the test.
Mission statements have become so ubiquitous that sometimes it seems every last market stall should have a stirring statement of principles, ambitions and objectives, displayed above the socks or electrical accessories.
The term itself was popularised by the management guru Peter Drucker, who said that any good mission statement should be short enough to fit on a T-shirt. But even pre-Drucker, many organisations will have had some statement ...
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...thought through mission statement is clarity...The best mission statements show some...articulated in the mission statement. Shall we...For while mission statements, in order...change your mission statement after two...
