Last week, I wrote about vision. Often, hand in hand with a vision statement comes a Mission Statement. Like vision, a mission statement can be meaningful or (more often than not) ignored. So what’s the difference between the two? Well, a vision provides direction where leadership wants to take the organization. It’s like a […]
I’ve been around large corporations throughout most of my career. When leadership starts talking about wanting a ‘vision statement’ I start to get nervous. You never know what approach will be used. Staff that have been around the block a few times just sit back and ignore it because more often than not it flashes […]
A few years ago, one of my staff coined a phrase – Six Stupid. I don’t know if they heard it or read it somewhere else, but I’ve always liked the term. Basically, it means that someone is following a policy, process, or procedure that lacks common sense. A process that doesn’t benefit either the […]