January 5th, 2008
How To Use Your Mission Statement And Vision Statement To Embrace Change And Build
L. Gordon Cravitz, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, wrote in a New Year’s column (Wall Street Journal, Jan. 2, 2007) that this icon of business, markets and journalism had faced a dilemma. “Do we preserve the icon as it has been, rejecting changes as too risky? Or do we try to add to the qualities that created the icon in the first place, taking care not to change simply for the sake of change?” They would adopt the latter approach defining and involving its readership in the evolving changes.