TF shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.newusers:

Dian

I don't agree. Mission Statements are a load of bunkum and tommyrot*.
If they are for your staff, why the hell are they on public display?
It is the reputation for doing a job properly that leads to a
successful company - not a load of ******** hanging on the wall in
reception. I work for a highly successful service company: we turn
away bad customers that we don't want. We don't have a mission
statement and never will have one either. We don't have room on the
wall in reception for starters - the wall is full of really important
notices such as Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, HP Centre of
Excellence, Citrix Gold...

Terry Farrell

*old English expression = bunkum - claptrap: tommyrot - utter
foolishness

Terry,

I'm with you on the majority of the mission statements: too general so
that the company can be bent in any direction.

This is ours:


$WEMANUFACTURETIMERECORDERS is your partner, as a system integrator,
for data acquisition and data control in order to deliver correct
information to the management system in the areas of human resources,
access control, shop-floor control and supply chain management.


It's a tad more concrete than most other mission statements I've ever
read.

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