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Whack-a-Mole Strategy

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / October 26, 2009 / 0 Comments

Remember Whack-a-Mole? It’s an amusement park or pinball arcade game that features seven “moles” that pop up through holes in a game board directly in front of the player. Each player is given a club- “a mole whacker.” As the game starts, moles pop up through the holes at random.  The object of the game […]

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Are Mission Statements Still Relevant?

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / October 26, 2009 / 2 Comments

At Alban we do a lot of strategic planning consulting work in congregations, under the umbrella of Holy Conversations. Increasingly, in my practice I find myself steering clients away from writing an official mission statement as part of the planning process. My reasons for discouraging the practice are three-fold: 1)    For most of us, the […]

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