Crafting clear mission and vision statements is critical to shaping company identity, motivating employees and guiding decision-making. A mission statement defines the current scope and purpose of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Micah is a Boston-based founder-strategist covering entrepreneurship Any business with goals needs a destination—the ultimate ...

Over the years, I’ve observed complete bewilderment over two of the fundamental features of a company’s culture: its vision statement versus its mission statement. In browsing explanations from ...

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, ...

You likely have a company mission statement, a short declaration of your organization’s purpose. Tesla’s mission statement, for example, is “To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

A program (e.g., department, school, or program) mission statement includes a description of the broad purposes the program is aiming to achieve, the primary functions or activities of the program or ...