Setting goals and mission statements. Why do we do it?

My annual review actually included a criticism about my goal-setting, even though I hadn’t actually set any goals about goals, writes Colm O’Regan

DO you have a mission statement? Depending on your vintage, the phrase mission statement might have a different connotation.

Maybe it was a sermon delivered by a Redemptorist warning of the dangers of fornication, leading everyone in the parish to go home and look up the word, then see what it was like.