The store manager a.k.a. Coffee Master at my local Starbucks gave me their card the other day and I noticed on the back is the Starbucks Mission Statement. Now I've seen this before and have even read the general exposition thereof in"The Starbucks Experience" but this time I felt an impression in a new way.
- Day in and day out Starbucks and their employees are clear of the mission.
- The mission incarnates daily whether or not the surrounding culture finds it trendy or is even aware of it.
- Name, position and mission are all on the same card. (as if those things are interrelated...)
- The mission is clearly supported by practical principles.
- The mission is bold and progressive.
- The mission experiences evolution and change.
(http://www.starbucks.com/mission/)
Most of us won't just drift into purpose, we have to pursue it. Without clarity of mission both personally and communally we're making a decsion to allow decsions to be made for us. Going with the proverbial flow. Life's too short to just drift.
Do you live by a mission statement? One that you'd put on the back of a card?
What about communally? Do you share a mission with your "tribe"?
2 comments:
What you bring up is the question of how do people work together is everyone has there own "mission statements"? The work in starbucks know their practical role and the overall mission statement yet I doubt each individual has their own statement. In the church, the body of believers, everyone is searching for their own individual mission or purpose. I see many people with their mission statements in hand yet it many times only reaches out to the betterment of God in their lives. Purpose is an odd thing because many people think it means advancement or improvement. What if our mission is already their yet it seems too hard and simple to do.
Thanks for the comment. You took a quick observation to another level.
I do think the church could do a better job at clarifying itʻs overarching mission of expressing Godʻs love to the world and that itʻs something we all are to take part of. Within that thereʻs certainly room personality, creativity and variety but thereʻs something about knowing the mission of the company and then discerning how you can support that. Great last line, "what if our mission is already their yet seems too hard and simple to do". That hits it.
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