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A Marketing Lesson from a Baghdad Mess Hall

by Geoff on November 16, 2009

Every business needs a sense of mission. But I’ll tell you what a business does NOT need: one of those Deadly, Dry, Dull mission statements.

You know what I’m talking about: reading most mission statements is about as exciting as watching grass grow in the middle of winter!

For some reason, when business people begin writing a mission statement, they start using complicated, cliché language they would never use in ordinary conversation. Everyone nods their heads at mission statements like this—and then they nod off. There’s nothing to argue with. But also nothing to get passionate about. Read more…

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