I first ran across Mission Statement\u2019s while in the Navy. They were trying to adapt Dr. Deming\u2019s Total Quality Management (TQM) into their own program called Total Quality Leadership (TQL). I wasn\u2019t much impressed by the idea of mission and vision statements since I figured they were just another element in bureaucratic paperwork and were just another exercise in time wasted. There hasn\u2019t been anything since then to change my mind.<\/p>\n
So when I started seeing these in parishes it seemed to me they didn\u2019t have much vision or knew their mission other than promulgating buzzwords and being inclusive\/welcoming\/vibrant\/caring.<\/p>\n
My exacts thoughts were that if you had a Mission Statement<\/em> and it didn\u2019t directly quote the Gospel imperative or another passage from the Gospel You\u2019re doing it wrong<\/strong> (if you\u2019re going to do it in the first place).<\/p>\n So today I found myself nodding-my-head in total agreement as I read this post by Diane Harris<\/a> on Cleansing Fire<\/a>. She provides examples of these statements from her diocese and they are representative of what I have seen. It is not that they are really awful or without any merit. Just that they look like statements from a committee without the urgency of the Gospels.<\/p>\n Now if you were going to have a personal Mission Statement<\/em> what would it be?<\/p>\n I kind of like Catholic Answer<\/a>\u2019s Patrick Coffin<\/a>\u2019s tag line in this regard.<\/p>\n \u201cBe a saint! What else is there?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I first ran across Mission Statement\u2019s while in the Navy. They were trying to adapt Dr. Deming\u2019s Total Quality Management (TQM) into their own program called Total Quality Leadership (TQL).…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14782,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions\/14782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}