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:
- Maybe the mission isn't the problem.
- Maybe the mission is the problem.