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What the staff does matters more than what's in an organization's mission statement

  • Written by David Berlan, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University
The late Sen. Ted Kennedy, reading from "A Nation of Immigrants," a book by his brother, President John F. KennedyAP Photo/Dennis Cook

Mission statements, not normally in the news, are getting more attention than usual.

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