A useful statement of purpose for a company needs…
A useful statement of purpose for a company needs three parts. The first is what I will call a likeness by analogy. A master painter often will create a pencil likeness that he has seen in his mind before he attempts to create it in oils, the likeness of a company is with the key leaders and employees want the enterprise to have become at the end of the path that they are on
— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)