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		<title>Mission Statements Have a Purpose</title>
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Last week, Matt wrote a good post at SmallBizBee titled “7 Steps to Writing a Killer Mission Statement.” We struck up a conversation via Twitter about how many companies misunderstand the purpose of a mission statement. Matt was kind enough to offer me space on his site to write an article about it. I took [...]]]></description>
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<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 212px"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NACA_credo.jpg" ><img title="NACA's (the predecessor of NASA) mission state..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/NACA_credo.jpg/202px-NACA_credo.jpg" alt="NACA's (the predecessor of NASA) mission state..." width="202" height="312" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Image via Wikipedia</p></div>
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<p>Last week, Matt wrote a good post at SmallBizBee titled “<a href="http://smallbizbee.com/index/2008/10/24/writing-mission-statement/" title="7 Steps to Writing a Killer Mission Statement"  target="_blank">7 Steps to Writing a Killer Mission Statement</a>.” We struck up a conversation via <a href="http://www.twitter.com/" class="zem_slink" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" >Twitter</a> about how many companies misunderstand the purpose of a mission statement. Matt was kind enough to offer me space on his site to write an article about it. <a href="http://smallbizbee.com/index/2008/10/27/mission-statement-lose-it/" title="I took him up on it."  target="_blank">I took him up on it.</a></p>
<p>Rather than repost here, I refer you over to <a href="http://www.smallbizbee.com" title="SmallBizBee"  target="_blank">SmallBizBee </a>to read it. While you&#8217;re there, check out some of the other great content and resources he offers.</p>
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