Organizations: After Fracture

When your mission-driven organization fractures, don't go back to the mission.

I work at a Jesuit Catholic institution steeped in mission and vision. I'm also - as an alumna of this very same institution - personally steeped in the mission and vision. It might seem counter-intuitive, then, for me to suggest that a fracture in a mission-committed organization shouldn't be addressed with mission language.

Why? Two (non-exhaustive) answers:

  1. Maybe the mission isn't the problem.
  2. Maybe the mission is the problem.

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