Prerequisite to the New and Highly Promising

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Last fall I posted an article about the 5 Compromises That Derail Small Group Ministry.  This morning I began to feel like I needed to revisit compromise #3, Shrinking Back from Prioritizing Steps that Lead to GroupLife.

What got me today was Peter Drucker’s insistence that “Planned, purposeful abandonment of the old and of the unrewarding is a prerequisite to successful pursuit of the new and highly promising.”  See also, Purposeful Abandonment: Prerequisite to Innovation.

Unrewarding.  Good word.  Loved this line from The 5 Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask Your Organization: “Like the New Testament parable of the talents, your job is to invest your resources where the returns are manifold, where you can have success.”

Why is this so hard?  Again, Drucker was almost always spot on:

“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete–the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are (Pg 54, The 5 Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask Your Organization).”

Do you have programs that are begging to be abandoned?  Now you know why…

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