Faith Venture

I’ve been thinking about organizations. Large ones. Smaller ones. Businesses. Non-profits. Religious.

An idea infuses a leader’s mind. I need to spread the idea, she thinks. Oh, I know, let us birth a program. We will compose a theme. Maybe it can sire a letterism that looks cool on a T-shirt. We will have meetings. We will have small groups focus on the theme for a period of time—say three months.

Then the theme will die. The T-shirts become what the people wear when they paint the bedroom. The banners go into storage.

Or, maybe…

The leader (at any level) decides to act in a certain way. He models a behavior. She asks questions and invites honest feedback. Maybe they quit “majoring in the minors” and begin focusing on what’s important.

Maybe everyone’s heart changes. Maybe just a little at a time. It’s like losing weight. A little change and maybe you lose a pound a week. In a year, there has been a lifestyle change and 50 pounds are gone. Often change is like that. It creeps up on us until one day realization of change hits our consciousness.

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