Roundtable offers high-powered consulting, faces skepticism.(NATION)(National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management )(Discussion)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: December 15, 2006| Author: Feuerherd, Joe | Copyright information

The driving concept behind the lay-led National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management is simple enough: Take the best tools of modern management--detailed budgeting, comprehensive financial disclosure, human resource policies that reward high performers--promote them widely within existing church structures, and then apply them to the diocese and parish.

The Roundtable was corporate Catholic America's response to the financial and management issues plaguing the chur...

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