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I'm looking for any tips or suggestions for helping develop my business's mission statement. I'm a bit confused on what exactly a mission statement is...

  • What is a mission statement composed of?
  • How should I look at or break down my goals to fit this?
  • Is there anything else I should look at besides my company goals?
  • Is there anything a mission statement should not be?
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oh, thank you for your explanation... definitely was using it wrong. But i meant to ask... What should be included in a mission statement. I actually made a post on META.stackoverflow to provide a better medium for discussing edits. – Derek Adair Jan 19 '11 at 18:33
USAGE 1 According to traditional usage, comprise means ‘consist of,’ as in : the country comprises twenty states, and should not be used to mean ‘constitute or make up (a whole),’ as in : this single breed comprises 50 percent of the Swiss cattle population. But confusion has arisen because of uses in the passive, which have been formed by analogy with words like compose: when comprise is used in the active (as in : the country comprises twenty states) it is, oddly, more or less synonymous with the passive use of the second sense... – Derek Adair Jan 19 '11 at 18:38
(as in : the country is comprised of twenty states). Such passive uses of comprise are common and are fast becoming part of standard English. – Derek Adair Jan 19 '11 at 18:43

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I agree with Guy Kawasaki on this. Have mantra, not mission statements.

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/mantras_versus_.html

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