non profit management

1. Read through the week 2 discussion board and find a mission statement analysis that you DIDN'T completely agree with.  Report what it is and why you think the analysis of the statement is a bit off track.

2. I once had the chance to participate with "Thiagi" (a very prominent management professor from the Univ. of Indiana whose real name would run 52 letters long) on a project he did for top managment at Mastercard.  They were having a problem with Mission and asked him to come up with a way for them to focus on what's important.  As a group experiment, he first asked them to reduce the mission statement to 16 words or less (they came up with "Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce enabling global transactions and speeding payments"), then he had them reduce it to no more than 8 words ("driving force enabling global transactions and speeding payments"), then 4 words ("global transactions/speeding payments"), then 2 words ("global payments").  At that point, everyone was crystal clear about what made this company tick. They paid Thiagi $20k for the 2 hour session by the way; talk about speeding payments  :-)

I want you to do the same thing with any company - private or nonprofit (but we'll only take it down to 4 words).  Take the mission and reduce it to 16, 8, and then 4 words.  Write the transformation or each mission statement within your post.  You will find that you are able to focus on mission in a very different way after you've done this.

 

 

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