LOL Lapdog. I wonder if you were at a management level in your organisation.
It appears to have elements of the mission, vision and values of a corporation and it is one of the fist things that you do when you set up the organisation - at the strategic planning level.
We used to develop such statements for each of the projects we undertook - forget about the organisation.
If everyone lived up to such statements, this would indeed be a wonderful world.
Hey its Saturday - let us celebrate the great man himself - Satchmo!!