The Lean Church: Streamline Your Ministry for Maximum Effectiveness

http://www.christianitytoday.com/workplace/articles/issue10-leanchurch.html

[Faithinthe WorkPlace.com] December 22, 2004--Although some forms of waste are easy to recognize in organizations—people sitting around doing nothing, products ruined by damage or spoilage, scrapped parts, and so on—other forms of waste are not so obvious. They are silent killers of value that simply consume resources, absorb our mental energies, and block the flow of real value. These types of waste, which we'll discuss below, are found not only in poorly managed, inefficient organizations; they have infected, to a greater or lesser extent, the activities of every organization....