A personal mission statement is a written declaration of our unique direction or purpose. This statement makes it clear not just what you intend to do in this world, but how you intend to do it. It's ...

Almost 30 years ago, I stood up with my fellow medical students at my medical school graduation and recited the Hippocratic Oath. While the words of this historic oath have been updated and modernized ...

Defining where you are headed, what you want to accomplish and pinpointing a purpose is an important exercise every small business should undertake. A market-oriented purpose, or mission statement, ...

What comes to mind when you think of a mission statement? Many of us might think of corporate websites or self-help books, or the kind of tagline you might put in your LinkedIn bio. But a mission ...

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, ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Inside a small concrete pump station by the side of a freeway, a Quality Assurance team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a crew of government contractors labor over a ...

Companies have created mission statements for years to explain why they exist and why they do what they do. Google’s mission statement, for example, is "to organize the world’s information and make it ...

In my talks to parents, I always include how to make a Family Mission Statement. After my talk, I’ve had parents whose children are now grown come up and say, “I wish we had done that as a family.” ...

What’s your news company’s mission? Most journalists at mainstream news organizations would bridle at the question. A mission sounds like a pre-determined point of view, an ideology that could color ...