MANAGEMENT by OBJECTIVES ( MBO) - focus on achievable goals and to attain the best possible results from available resources (Your freeTen3 Business e-Coach):
"Management by Objectives (MBO) was first outlined by Peter Drucker in 1954 in his book 'The Practice of Management'. In the 90s, Peter Drucker himself decreased the significance of this organization management method, when he said: "It's just another tool. It is not the great cure for management inefficiency... Management by Objectives works if you know the objectives, 90% of the time you don't.""
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California adds:
Having had warnings fall on deaf ears 35 years ago, it would be dishonest to say that there isn't some satisfaction to see recognition and acknowledgement at this late date, that WELS made a disastrous turn in mid century 1960's. A generation ago she decided to embrace the methodology of the world, and use MBO (PPBS) to facilitate (call it manipulate) replacing KJV with anything except KJV at first, then perpetrating the NIV, which was the choice of the changers.
The MBO system and the translation issue are more than "related". The issues are intimately entwined. Whether WELS will ever be salvaged only God knows, but He is allowing a window of opportunity a generation later for pastors and laymen alike, to review, understand and recognize what has been done unto them.
Unless the system of MBO is addressed, there will only be more of the same, for any well meaning leaders or laymen will continue to be slaves of the system. Even if NNIV should be set aside for the time being "one step back" in the process of "two steps forward, one step back" , the system will still be in place for whatever brainstorm comes along. This window of exposure may be happening for a remnant in WELS to enable some to make very painful decisions, or join those whose decisions were (are) being made for them.
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GJ - California went through it all, long ago. The same template is being used today, and the hip pastors of California (Valleskey, Bivens, Kelm, Stadler) became the senior leaders of WELS. Sure, Stadler was allowed to leave on his own terms, with the property, but the general trend has never abated.
