2. From Leadership to Management: The people expect to be managed and those that led now simply manage the people they have.
3. From Volunteers to Employees: Increased staff creates pressure to maintain levels of income
4. From Proactive to Protective: Establishment of programs and policies to protect the organization and or its leadership.
5. From Aggressive Mission to Accumulation of Wealth: Rise in assets and a decrease in risk-taking.
6. From Servant Leadership to Leaders Who Are Served: Those in power are motivated to protect their positions.
7. From the Presence of Christ As Our Rule to Policies and Procedures: “That’s the way we’ve always done it before.”
8. From The Margins to The Mainstream: The movement takes on a sense of prominence by the majority rather than being active on the margins.
9. From Organic Growth (x) to Organizational (+): The growth shifts from multiplication on the grassroots level to the addition of programs and staff.
10. From Flat Structure to Fat: Building of hierarchical layers.
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This is a good list of the ten things not to do. These can also be read as the symptoms of a dying movement. Every so often every organization needs to re-evaluate itself and ask these tough questions. It's about time we stop trying to emulate the structures and hierarchy of for profit business. Our job isn't to amass wealth so why do we follow their examples? We need to get back to the roots of the organic movement of the early church. These are good articles, now let's use them.
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