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does, or why the organization is there in the rst place and where it wants to go,
that is, the leader’s intent. Lawler (2006) notes that a mission statement is “neither
a strategic plan nor a method of controlling the organization . . . Instead, it provides
a broad sense of what the organization does and wants to be” (p. 549). The mission
statement becomes meaningful when it includes the value of the organization’s
products and the “strategic intent” (Prahalad and Hamel, 1990, in Lawler, 2006,
p.550) of the organization, which includes among other things the indicators of its
success. For example, the mission of the Masters in Infrastructure Protection and
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