[mblevin]

Funny enough - Satya Nadella introduced a new mission statement at Microsoft shortly after he became CEO[1].

It's pretty anodyne, but by design - it's a way to push the company towards different ways of operating by creating a pretext to say "X project is part of the new mission and here's why" from a top-down perspective.

1. https://www.geekwire.com/2015/exclusive-satya-nadella-reveal...

[JohnFen]

The mission statement in "To “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.”"

Which is not just anodyne, it's generic to the point of meaninglessness.

[amf12]

Those are just fancy words for "improve productivity for businesses and users", which is not that generic.

[JohnFen]

It sounds pretty generic for me. I mean, Google sells productivity tools and services. "Improving productivity" is just table stakes, not something that's a useful mission statement. Vague or overly broad mission statements are pretty much the same as no mission statement at all.