@**caution**opinion_ahead wrote:
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I remember the first time we were asked at work to compose a mission statement to differentiate us from other schools. Eh? All state schools are trying to do the same thing, surely. I may have vocalised this rather scathingly. It did not go down well.
Time spent on such things is time away from the actual job, IMV.
I'm 100% with you on that. Mission statements are a curse in my experience too. My own view is that is the job of whoever is in overall charge to come up with a good one (if they can) or leave it alone if they can't.
A couple of good ones I have seen in the past:
A military unit: "When we fight, we win."
A stud farm: "Winning is in our blood." (very clever).
I am willing to bet neither of those were created by 10 people in a room for a whole day with a flipchart. For a start, they don't contain words like "excellence", "world class", "leadership", etc. (yawn).
