Non-Profits Stretched Thin LO464

Art Kleiner (art@well.sf.ca.us)
Sat, 18 Mar 1995 06:29:02 -0800

Reply to LO 456 - Non-Profits Stretched Think
From: toner%smtpgate@fourhcouncil.edu --

You wrote:
Everyone is stretched so thin that resourcing the future vision seems to
get lost..

Anyone else have any experience with this--any thoughts or suggestions? 

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Bryan Smith, one of my collaborators on The Fifth Disicpline Fieldbook, 
generally responds to this by suggesting a rethinking of the budgeting 
and planning process. You have to do all that ANYWAY, so why not 
begin that process with a different type of conversation -- based on 
what the participnts really want the organization to do? 


I think this is an important question,k this matter of practicality. 


I hope others have better answers. 


Bryan spells out his strategy in The Fieldbook page 80. 


I'm honestly not entering this to "plug" the Fieldbook. It's just that 
I've seen too few credible answers to your question. Bryan's is one. 
Are there others? 


From: Art Kleiner <art@well.sf.ca.us>
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Host's Note: I'll add that it's not just the non-profits who are 
stretched thin today. Some of our clients with enormous resources are 
feeling just as stretched today. 


  -- Rick Karash, rkarash@world.std.com, host for learning-org
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