Roll the Stone (of Mediocrity) Away
The Sisyphus Syndrome can cause
your normally smart organization to do some stupid things that work against its success — fundraising and otherwise.
UNICEF uses a similar technique of asking "why" five times to get to a root cause of something. Try it with something as simple as: "Why was our meeting so disorganized?" "Why" might produce "because we didn't have time to prepare." Another "why" drives down to the next level of cause — "because we're understaffed," etc. Whatever your answer, ask "why was that" until you come up with a profound cause rather than a symptom.
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