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Goal clarity is the best way to stop mission creep.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Nonprofit leaders should always keep their mission, values and SMART goals in mind as expansion projects arise to avoid mission creep.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Quasi-governmental and thinly capitalized housing finance titans engaging in mission creep to make ever-more risky forays into products and services both in and out of explicit congressional approval rarely ends well.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
For those involved in Strictly’s creation, the misconduct scandal is symbolic of mission creep from the show’s original vision.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 July 2024
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First Known Use
1991, in the meaning defined above
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“Mission creep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mission%20creep. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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