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Stewarding Organizations
People are often afraid that if they don’t spend every moment at work trying to be absolutely as efficient and make as much profit as possible, if they back off of that even just a little bit the company will go out of business and they will become poor. This is not true! There are ways to manage an organization profitably, value people, and work to build up Good Places - all at the same time! We have developed some ways to express the principles for managing or stewarding organizations to accomplish these three aims all at the same time. Later we will explain and discuss them more. Here we will just list them: Charters : we need to know the purpose of the organization, what its aim is. Plans : we work best when we think ahead and plan. Managing Systems : the systems we establish in our organizations produce results more than individual efforts do. People work in systems. We need to manage the systems that people work in - this determines our efficiency. Financial Management : A system that not only accounts for income and expenses but that also teaches the members of the organization how their individual decisions affect the rest of the group. Training, Education, Development : Training teaches us how to do our specific job tasks. Education includes learning in an area or a field beyond task-specific training. Development goes beyond education, even, to address not just what we know but who we are and who we can become. When a person joins an organization they should receive not only the Training about his or her specific job tasks but also the encouragement and opportunity to proceed beyond training into Education and Development. Service : Every organization develops specific skills and abilities that serve its customers and that bring the financial return that makes the group economically viable. Those same specific and perhaps unique skills and abilities can be applied to make the world a better place in ways that people can’t afford to pay for.
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