Eliminating the Red tape

I discovered lately a problem that many organizations have that prevent them from ever reaching their goals and accomplishing their mission. They just don't care. And I think this problem can be broken down in three ways; they don't care to know, they don't care to look, and they don't care to accept. First they don't care to know. Many leaders primarily consumed with the issues that directly involved their time and in the process of delegating responsibility, they leave somethings that my appear to be of minor importance for other people to handle. I'm not talking about actually doing those things but making sure they are done right. Organizations, especially churches, are in denial about what people really think about their services. Taking the time to ask someone what they think is to small of a task for leaders to deal with (I'm being sarcastic of course) and their for they simple don't care to know. Secondly, they don't care to look. Leaders often miss the little things that make the biggest difference. You could have the most brilliantly designed restrooms with expensive decorations amenities, but if you don't have any toilet paper...you've got a huge problem. What tags along with not caring to know is not ever finding out! Without habitual evaluation by simply looking around and checking things out and seeing if people are in need of basic accommodations, a leader can force themselves out of the loop that the people they are leading. Finally, some don't care to accept. This boils down to being honest about the condition of the organization. Most leaders are afraid of reality. They spending most of their time dealing with what might happen or what already happen, that they have no idea whats happening right now. There is nothing wrong with setting goals and having an agenda of how to accomplish them, but if a leader can not accept the true condition of their organization by the process of knowing and then looking, they will never know if they are being successful or not. I've used the work simply several times on purpose because it really is simple. Taking the time and initiative to evaluate yourself on a daily basis and accept the reality of where you are and the current moment and making adjustments based of what you've found. Once you have accepted where you are you can move to where you want to be. I have found that most organizations and especially churches are guarded with proverbial "red tape" in order to eliminate having to cater to the new comers and needy people in the church. But but not being aware of who you are "really" doing you eliminate people altogether. Many churches have a desire to invite people into their fellowship but make it darn near impossible to do it. Eliminating the red tape means leaders should make sure they are not unknowingly doing things to prevent people from having the experience they desire for them to have, by making sure that the know what is going on...at all times.