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by RichardCA 519 days ago
The concept of a mission / vision statement is an artifact of 1980's "Management Consulting" culture in the US, which had ties to the various "Human Potential" groups like est, Landmark Forum, etc.

Other things like 360 degree feedback are also borrowed from that culture.

There was a very old article in Fortune about this, it's preserved but there is no formatting.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240415121234/https://money.cnn...