Last Things First

A Keynote Address
by Katherine Clarke, Ph.D.
at the Conference
So Now What: Beyond the Clichés of Leadership
Center for Organizational Reform
Gonzaga University
October 25, 2001

On the morning of September 11th, hundreds of people, fearing they were about to die, made a phone call. Never before in history have we had the opportunity to hear, with such immediacy and on such a scale, the actual last thoughts and concerns of people facing death. What they said in that phone call was: “I love you.” They called spouses and partners. They called parents and children. They called cherished friends. They called and said, “I love you.”

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An Assessment of a Dysfunctional Organization…

Carl C. Green, Ph.D.
April 2001
Working Paper Series of the Center for Organizational Reform (COR)
Copyright © 2001

The purpose of this paper is to apply some of the literature on dysfunction in organizations to a congregational situation that I have experienced as a way of debriefing the experience and informing future congregational engagements. Believing that this literature can be useful for congregational analysis, I experimented with the application of this literature to the analysis of a situation that I experienced in pastoral ministry. Read more →