In one of my favourite presentations, “Mind the Gap“, I often do a vignette about how Baby Boomers use away days (or offsites, or visioning retreats, or bush councils, or whatever they’re called in your country) to develop strategy, visions, missions, purpose statements, strategic objectives and KPAs, KPIs and all manner of corporate-speak systems. You can see a video of this vignette at YouTube.

I found a great website today which takes the lampooning of this part of Boomer management lore a step further. And it will save you about $ 25,000 in consultant’s fees, and two days of your time. The Dilbert website has a corporate mission statement generator that does a brilliant job of churning out the standard garbage that most away days do. Check it out here.