It seems to me that an organization can also benefit by using the 4M methodology being discussed in our LPG meetings to increase its influence on the domain in which it operates.
For example, Diversity Council has just refreshed its mission statement to:
Through education, we use our diversity as the foundation to build a healthy, inclusive, and prosperous community.
How we arrived at the new mission statement was through a process of being open to the diverse opinions from our board members and stakeholders. And it has been an educational process in which we respectfully obtained ideas and suggestions from everyone and modeled how to distill from the wide spectrum of ideas to an essence--a mission statement--that everyone buys-in.
We followed our DC board process. and refined how to use Web 2.0 technologies like discussion forums, goggle forms, etc and then wrapped up by focused face-to-face discussions to come to a consensus.
We work in a way that honors our mission statement. We have modeled how a transparent, open, diverse organization should work. That is a good thing.
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