I think it’s every day now that I read or listen to some report or comment on the high cost of gasoline: what drives it, how we got to this point, how individuals and corporations and governments are struggling with it. A question I’ve not heard addressed is how gasoline above $4.20 a gallon will impact congregations.
I read the following in the Monday Business Section of The Globe and Mail, June 30, page B6. It’s from Harvey Schachter’s weekly page on best practices for management. As I read it, I thought that his advice is tailor made for the RCA. Our current management models (including our use of Carver) are all about centralized direction, closed discussions, and small selected groups making all the decisions, discouraging debate, restricting information, and speaking with one voice. Well, those are hardly best practices.
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