POOLING OF IGNORANCE

Monday, March 17, 2008

As a pastor for fifty years, I was involved with many committees. Few, if any of them, worked well. It’s sad to say, but I found most of them to be a pooling of ignorance. This doesn’t mean that the people involved were ignorant—at least not all of them. It means they were generally ignorant most of the time on the topics of discussion.

There is only one way to survive when you find yourself serving on a committee. You have to have courage, humor and energy. As a general rule, when it comes to committee meetings—the fewer the better. This applies to the number of meetings and the number of participants. Another general rules is, that unless the meeting is worth several hundred dollars—don’t have it. You are wasting time and money.

My philosophy is: Get on with it and get the job done!