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Issue No. 16 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting enlists Peter Drucker’s help on The Budget Bucket and gives you a Christmas gift book/study kit for the men on your list.  Teaching on the biblical quality of gentleness, Ron Jenson says that “personality is what men see and character is what God sees.” Here are more resources for your future staff meetings..

   

 

No Crying or Holding Hands

“Manliness is Next to Godliness” was the page one article in the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 7, 2006.  A Christian men’s movement leader complained about the “wuss-ification of America.”  The group is GodMen and they believe “that being a guy is a reason to be proud, not a problem to be fixed.” At GodMen conferences, they promise guys will “have fun and enjoy some great music, without being required to cry or hold another man's hand.”

I don’t know if they’re the real deal.  But Ron Jenson is the real deal and if you’re looking for a thoughtful and biblical personal or group Bible study for men in your church or organization, skip the next GodMen conference and order this study kit, Taking the Lead: Following the Example of Paul, Timothy and Silvanus. The GodMen guys should read Ron’s excellent chapter on the incredible power of gentleness.

Women readers may want to buy this as a Christmas gift for their favorite men, but I’m pretty sure 1 Thessalonians 2:7-12 (Jenson’s key text) was written for women also.

Order Taking the Lead and check out Ron Jenson’s website.


 

   

Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
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1. What characterizes our workplace culture when it comes to typical male and female roles? Any changes needed?
2. Ron Jenson writes that “gentleness is not passiveness.” Read 1 Thessalonians 2:2-6 and note the action words.

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Insights from the Management Buckets Workshop Experience

It’s budget time for many organizations.  Peter Drucker said that “innovation means, first, the systematic sloughing off of yesterday” and focusing on “purposeful abandonment.”

Drucker also said that effective executives ask, "If we did not already do this, would we go into it now?" If the answer is no, then the activity or program must be dropped or curtailed.

It’s a great budget exercise and an excellent management team discipline.  Behind closed doors, ask your managers to trim 20 percent of their programs and staff—on paper only, for now.

Unless you ruthlessly cut fat, excess programs and sacred cows, you’ll wind up with a bloated bureaucracy and ineffective results and outcomes.  It’s the difference between leverage and lethargy.  .

John 15:2 (NIV) says, “He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.”.

Search the Drucker Archives here.

In our Management Buckets Workshop Experience, we focus on The Budget Bucket in non-technical terms to help leaders focus on results and outcomes. The Budget Bucket is one of 20 Critical Competencies Required for Leading and Managing Today’s Nonprofit Organization.
Email me for the 2007 workshop dates.

 

 

Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
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1. If we did not already do this program (fill-in-the-blank here), would we go into it now?
2. According to John 15, what’s more important: faithfulness or fruitfulness?

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