Sacrifice....Is It Worth Sacrificing For?

"The critical task for organizational leaders involves realizing that their constituents who are sympathetically third culture perspective will indeed opt out if defending the group's identity seems more important than the reason the group exists.....Even an older colleague with a lifetime of service to his fellowship told me with tears, 'If the choice is between the mission and the organization ... I choose mission.' Who could condemn those who decide that their relationship with a certain organization has become the necessary sacrifice if the mission is at stake?

Perhaps at one time mission depended on organization. Today organization depends on mission. Younger leaders need to ask themselves what they will sacrifice for the sake of concerted effort. Order leaders need to ask themselves whether what they represent is worth sacrificing for." (Off Road Disciplines. Earl Creps. 2006' p 172