Deliverables

"It all comes down to the deliverables..."

This is the line that stuck to my brain the other day while I was eating dinner with a very brilliant business man in our church.

It's one of those statements that's brilliant because of it's simplicity. It doesn't take a doctorate to understand how to apply it; it a basic concept with profound implications.

Here it is:

Everything I do and everything that the people who report to me do on a daily basis have to "link" in some way to the big picture initiatives of our church.

If we are going to hit 10k people in 2010 as a church, then there are a considerable amount of things that need to occur in order to get us there.

Therefore, as I am on vacation next week, I will be reverse engineering everything that I do into a list of deliverables that feed back into the bigger vision of our church.

"Frankly, if I'm doing something that doesn't help me hit one of my targets, it's a waste of time..."

I agree! Now, let the schedule hacking begin.