Re: Re: Forgive me

[Stan Reichardt <stan@mail.sluug.org>]

KoReE wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, ev wrote:
> 
> >
> > A mission statement of ...   Lets do cool stuff in Linux.   Wow,  can you
> > beat that?  You may be able to create a paragraph out of two sentences but
> > can you condense our mission statement into six words?
> 
> I love the idea of focus, but hate the idea of mission statements.  They
> always remind me of the marketing scum that I've had to put up with in the
> past.  It's always been my opinion that a mission statement is for framing
> and putting on a wall.  Focus, is something that you either have, or don't
> have, and a mission statement will not affect it one way or another.  In
> pondering this thread, I only think of one thing.  Our mission statement
> is in our name.
> <snip>

Many good points.  I consider the mission statement to be just another word
tool you can use to trigger planning and thinking about goals and objectives
(yet another major topic of discussion).  

I often find myself coming back to the basic who, what, where, when, why and
how questions.  All those shouldn't be crammed into one sentence, but many of
those things can be considered together.  I put a mission statement on my
Hazelwood LUG home page ( http://www.sluug.org/~stan/hzlug.html ) more as a
reminder to myself of what I started out to do than any other reason.

Hazelwood LUG MISSION:
  To provide a group dedicated to helping the new Linux user (the "newbie")
  in the City of Hazelwood and general St. Louis metropolitan area. 

I find that the mission statement is something that I can focus on.  Do I
have it memorized?  No.  Should I?  Irrelevant.  Is it useful?  To the first
time reader of my HZLUG page and to me.    Is it cool?  No way.  Will it
change?  Maybe.

stan

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