Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Strategic Plans We have been preparing our strategic plan for WorldVenture. Yes, that's right, if you didn't know our mission has a new name. It's actually a good change. Anyway, back to the strategic plans. There are some gurus who suggest that strategic planning is obsolete since the world is changing too rapidly for any plan to come to fruition. They say to focus on core competencies that will help you survive and thrive in a world full of chaotic change. My soul resonates in agreement with this line of reasoning. Unfortunately my superiors haven't embraced "chaos theory" yet, so we have been working on our plans. I recently received a collegue's plans: page after page of statistics and projected goals for every aspect of their ministry. It was impressive and very depressing. If you gave me 10 years I could not produce a document like that. They had detailed projections for the coming 7 years, complete with tables and bar graphs. My 7 year projection is more biblical. I'm following Joseph's model: "there will be 7 big fat cows, followed by 7 lean and mean ones". Simple and straight to the point. Now if I only knew what was coming. Planning for the future would be a lot easier if I, like Joseph, knew what the future held in store. 9:43:03 PM    comment []

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