What Does It Mean?

by Ari Herzog on December 5, 2008 · 5 comments

Question

Ask a random person on the street to tell you what he ate for breakfast that morning and you get an answer.

Ask a random business owner at a conference to say his mission statement and he stumbles.

What does it mean?

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1 Sherry December 5, 2008 at 5:46 PM Twitter: @sherryness

The mission statement of Blog Solace (my company) is to bring people happiness (solace) by making their blog/WordPress issues disappear. However, it doesn’t really roll off the tongue! I probably need to work on it.

Sherry´s last blog post..WordPress Security Upgrade to 2.6.5

2 Glen Turpin December 5, 2008 at 5:50 PM

The former is simple and empirical. The latter is complex and often abstract, aspirational, ambiguous or qualitative.

3 Jenn Castro December 5, 2008 at 6:25 PM

best advice given on writing mission statements:

Must easily convey what you do and why in the length of an elevator ride.

4 Rich Becker December 6, 2008 at 3:01 AM

It means most people are more passionate about breakfast. :)

Best,
Rich

5 Karin H. December 6, 2008 at 10:39 AM

Hi Ari

Nice one, put a smile on me.

So, if we are able to make our missions statement simple and empirical it’s as easy to digest as breakfast ;-)

Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)

Karin H.´s last blog post..When wood turns digital

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