What would happen if company mission statements were a summary of how the company actually operates instead of the all too common collection of socially acceptable phrases strung together by a committee? Perhaps we’d see more like:

• We leverage short-term relationships to extract maximum value from customers.
• Myopically focusing on quarterly results at the expense of long-term stability.
• All of our decisions and actions are based on a simple premise: If you don’t own stock in this company, we don’t care about you.
• We sell cheap crap. You should buy lots.
• Boldly facing the future by continuing to do what worked in 1978.
• We say we value diversity but vehemently oppose people and ideas different than our status quo.
• We fear change and are lobbying hard to enact regulations that will limit our need to adjust to new business models.

What did I miss?

[Thanks to David D’Souza (@dds180 and ddsouzadotcom.wordpress.com) for inspiring this post and starting the list!]