Mission Statements: Not Just Corporate Hogwash!

The idea of mission statements used to really piss me off! It was made even worse when I discovered the Dilbert Random Mission Statement Generator (no longer available online guys, sorry). It would spit out things like;
"We have committed to synergistically fashion high-quality products so that we may collaboratively provide access to inexpensive leadership skills in order to solve business problems"
This sounds like the kind of corporate BS I would expect to see plastered on the staff room wall of a Wal Mart.

But how do you expect your staff and customers to buy into that crap, when you don't even buy into it?

Business Plan. Do you have one?

If you don't have a map, how do you know if you're going in the right direction? The same can be said for business plans. If you don't have a business plan, you could find yourself on the road to Nowhere, or worse the road to Bustville.