In a previous blog, I provided an overview of strategic planning processes, including six core elements essential to any successful strategic plan. The six core elements are as follows: Vision Mission ...

Every great culture needs a mission, a vision, and values. Its mission is the organization’s indelible purpose and reason for being. Its vision is its aspiration for itself. And its values (or virtues ...

Mission and vision statements can be great means to give an organization focus, coherence, and direction. But often they don’t. And if not, the time and money spent on formulating them may become a ...

One of my favorite sayings is “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.” Many Entrepreneurs and CEOs tend to forget the importance of setting a vision for their ...

Let’s call it what it is: organizational theater. Enormous time and energy go into crafting the perfect string of aspirational words, but rarely are those words embedded into actual behaviors, ...

Grounded in the Jesuit approach to education, the School of Engineering’s vision is to educate the whole person to solve society’s most complex problems. Our vision is an engineering community that ...

In 2025, we were excited to celebrate the 29th Anniversary of the Exploratory Studies Program at Purdue University! Our program helps students discover the major that best reflects their interests and ...