Measuring your progress by comparing against others in your class, division, specific subset is usually a pointless exercise, except for those in the first stages of learning.
Instead, choose a front-runner in a totally unrelated area and learn from them.
Particularly those areas of the economy and business where there is great unrest, chaos, uncertainty, yet some are still wildly successful. What are those folks doing? Why are they succeeding against all trends? Who has been growing and expanding the last three years in industries that are shrinking? Is there any way to take those lessons and apply them to your non-profit?
The challenge many face is that their denomination, association, subset, is growing at a pace that is too slow to keep up with the changes they are facing on a local level. To thrive you’ll need to find others to pace yourself against.
Go out and find great examples, as often we fail to succeed because we are measuring the wrong things or measuring ourselves against the wrong standard.
David Curry
