mission statement

A mission statement is a concise summary of an organization's or person's purpose and aims. It is most often used by organizations in strategic planning and can be used by almost any type of business, organization or venture.  The desire to create personal mission statements increases its popularity as a tag.

For organizations, a mission statement seeks to describe the organization, its purposes and its methods.  Many use the mission statement in promotional materials or on their web sites.  Personal mission statements, in contrast, basically summarize what you want to do with your life or in the near future. In either case, the goal is for the statement to be succinct, meaning it may require a great deal of thought to be effective and meaningful.

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• The Joy Of Painting ‘Tender Age’ Track By Track

  
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  Check out The Joy Of Painting’s track by track from their new album, Tender Age after the jump, and purchase a CD here ! Track by track written by Garreth Spinn. High Definitions : This song I loved from the second I wrote it. We had a lot of trouble finishing it as a band. When Josh came into the fold, he ...
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• IronWork’s Mission Statement

  
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  Back 23 years ago when Dennis Stemp founded the Iron Trader News he issued a proclamation in the his ‘Perspectives’ (i.e. editorial column) titled “Our Philosophy”. In it he laid the groundwork and parameters for what his vision of this magazine should be. Back then there were but a handful of magazines that ...
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• Personal Mission Statement

  
  Kavaliro — Authority: 113
              “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” – Marianne Williamson As a resume writer, one of the first questions we ask a new client is, “ What is your ideal job ?” Even though we interview high-level executives with ...
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• Mission vs Vision

  
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  Vision and mission serve different purposes of an organization. The vision defines the future ambition of an organization, where the organization wants to be and how does it imagine itself in the long term. The mission on the other hand mentions the route through which the organization will achieve its vision. Where ...
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• Crowdsourcing: Why the Popular Method is Having Its Heyday, Why Its Here to Stay and What Your Dental Business Needs to Do about It

  
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  For the most part, crowdsourcing has lent its hand to many successful business stories.
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• 5 Reasons Your Business Needs a Mission Statement

  
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  As Jerry Maguire was fond of repeating: “It’s not a memo. It’s a mission statement.” A mission statement is a statement that sums up who you (or your company) is and what you are about. Unlike what happened in the popular movie, though, a mission statement isn’t pages and pages of ideas or plans. It’s… ...
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• Change the Rules: 5 Ways to Bring Mission Into Your Business

  
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  Weaving a greater mission into your financial goals can help get your team, customers and community involved to grow your bottom line. [via YoungEntrepreneur.com ] Follow us @entrepreneurht – lists / @sectorheat
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• Change the Rules: 5 Ways to Bring Mission Into Your Business

  
  Young Entrepreneur Blog - Small Business & Entrepreneurs Blog — Authority: 490
  Weaving a greater mission into your financial goals can help get your team, customers and community involved to grow your bottom line.
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• How To Use Mobile Marketing Strategies For Your Business

  
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  Mobile marketing is one of the newest types of marketing, yet it actually incorporates elements of some of the oldest and well proven methods. Many of the same rules that apply to other kinds of marketing will apply to mobile marketing too. However, there are some noteworthy differences. This article presents some ...
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• Seven years ago, I started this project named Sugarbutch

  
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  the very first Sugarbutch avatar Once upon a time, I was struggling to become a butch. My first girlfriend called me “Sugarbutch” and it stuck. Though my college girlfriend and I talked the talk of gender and sexuality, we were stuck in lesbian bed death—not that lesbians own bed death, exactly, any couple of ...
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• Want it all? Get your Head Back in the Clouds

  
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  You may have missed it, but being mediocre is all the rage. Talent, ambition and innovative thinking may be lauded in your company’s mission statement but our digital age is nurturing the rise of an uninspiring yet thoroughly competent class of office heroes. While earnest, hard working cogs were commendably ...
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• The Ugly Resume: Top 5 Most Common Resume Killers

  
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  When you are applying for a job, a recruiter will take about 20 to 30 seconds, max, to skim your resume. In this 20- to 30-second second span of time, the recruiter will decide if they should place your resume in the call or recycle list. Because so many candidates are applying for the same [...]
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• Creating your cleaning business mission statement

  
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  Creating a mission statement for your cleaning business is an important part of your overall plan of operating a successful cleaning operation. This is because your mission statement “captures” the very essence of your business. The statement itself lays out in just a few short sentences your company’s goals and ...
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• Help With Mobile Marketing

  
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  Some industries absolutely must use mobile marketing to survive, but using it well can be difficult. There is so much to learn both on the marketing side and the technical side. Here are some excellent tips for successful mobile marketing techniques. A/B testing is a great tool you can use for mobile landing pages. ...
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• What makes Healthwise so special ?

  
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  When you see a successful organization like Healthwise, the first question you ask is - What makes this organization so different and so special ? Why does it work so well ? How is it possible to replicate them ? A lot of what makes them so special is intangible. The Healthwise mission statement is simple – We ...
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• Build Customers And Profits Through Mobile Marketing

  
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  TIP! Begin by assembling a functioning database. Avoiding just adding cell phone numbers to your mobile marketing database.Mobile marketing is a phrase that can be defined several ways. When you look at the mobile marketing techniques of several businesses, you will notice contrasts in both definition and execution. ...
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