It happens in most organizations and institutions. It is a cycle that must be broken. Missions become movements, movements evolve into machines, and machines become monuments. Leaders must provide not only a legacy but lessons on maintaining momentum. Momentum is sustained by keeping the mission in front, highly visible. So quickly the purpose is lost in the everyday demands and mazes of management bureaucracy. It is the vision and mission that amazes people and compels them to commit.
Leighton Ford quotes an unknown source: “the last act of a dying organization is to produce a new edition of the rule book.” He goes on to suggest that “no doubt Jesus’ followers wished he had given them a detailed road map instead of Go into all the world and preach the gospel.” Direction was more important than detail. This was brilliant strategy that turned the world upside down. What direction are we going? What direction are you going?
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