# Mission and Vision Are Dead — Why Purpose and Core Values Are Replacing the Old Strategic Planning Framework

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Podcast: [Experience in Golf Clubhouse Design](https://stenobird.com/podcast/experience-in-golf-clubhouse-design-6405833)
Published: 2026-06-12T20:11:00+00:00
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## Resource

Walk into the boardroom of almost any private club in America and you'll find two framed documents that nobody at the club can quote — not the board president, not the GM, not the membership chair. Private clubs collectively spend forty to a hundred and twenty thousand dollars on strategic planning retreats that produce mission and vision statements written by committee to offend no one, commit to nothing, and guide no decision. This episode makes the case that the strategic planning industry is in the middle of a generational shift: mission and vision are being retired, and purpose and core values are taking their place — and this is not a semantic change but a structural one with direct consequences for how clubs make decisions about architecture, capital, programming, and culture. Topics discussed: why mission and vision statements entered the club world in the late 1980s and 1990s and what they were designed to do; four structural reasons the framework collapsed in the club governance environment (the committee writing process that dilutes every document into vague inoffensiveness, the inoffensiveness imperative that prevents any document from taking a real position, the time horizon mismatch that orphans vision statements within a single board cycle, and the fatal disconnection between strategic documents and operational decisions); why the failure is structural rather than the fault of consultants; what purpose means in the strategic planning sense and why a real purpose statement must exclude things to be useful; how core values differ from vision statements by being descriptive of current behavior rather than aspirational about future states; why descriptive documents have teeth that aspirational documents don't; how a clear purpose statement transforms the arc…

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