That's my view too. 'Pretentious twaddle' sums them up fine!
Now if only civil servants understood the meaning of 'civil' and 'servant'
we'd all be doing fine.
Terry Farrell
: Mission statements are useless pretentious twaddle created by people who
: have too much time and money on their hands.
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: Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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: JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote:
: > If I came up with a standard response for requests for content, it
: > wouldn't be phrased so politely. I have issues with people who don't
: > know how to Google for examples and then create their own documents.
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: > And I really hate mission statements. They always make me think that
: > someone made a lot of money coming up with that piece of propaganda
: > crap.
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: > : >> barbiegrl430 wrote:
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: >>> Help with writing a mission statement
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: >> This is one of those many questions that is not about the technical
: >> operation of the Word software (which is the general topic for this
: >> group) but about the language skills involved in composing English
: >> documents. Perhaps we need a standard reply to this. It's like those
: >> dratted Microsoft "templates" (ie not normal.dot) that say to the
: >> reader "I took the least line of resistance and did it the Microsoft
: >> way"!
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