Generic Mission Statement

Our mission is to exceed the expectations of our customers, inspire and reward our employees, and provide superior financial results to our investors.

Hmm.  Compare to:

Georgia Pacific - 

To create unique value for our customers with:

	A wide range of competitively priced bleached paperboard products that consistently meet their needs for manufacturing folding carton, food service and other value-added products;
•	Industry-leading sales, logistics, administrative and technical support that allow them to run their operations more efficiently and profitably and;
•	A proactive, customer-oriented, market-driven service focus — making it easy for them to do business with us.     Google -  Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

 

Valuing nature’s services? What’s that about?

In a list in a previous post there is the subject of “Valuing nature’s services.”  Someone wanted to know what that was about.  I too was intrigued when I heard this, so I inquired of the speaker for more information.  It seems that this refers to things that nature itself provides to humanity – clean and water, for example.  I’ve also been doing some research on the subject.  You can read more in my next column in the Mississippi Business Journal.

Speakers offer lists.

Interesting lists from a couple of speakers at a conference I am attending.

Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and one of the more accurate political analysts, listed his four “North Stars” of presidential elections.  He says that all presidential elections come down to one or more of these:
War & Peace
Economy
Scandal
Hot button social issues

Brian Dabson, CEO of the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) listed five “Global Forces Impacting Rural America.  They are:

Climate change
Globalizing Economies
Shifting populations
Energy
Valuing nature’s services