Pastor/Principal as CEO

Thomas J. Healey writes in the San José Mercury News:

If the pursuit of best practices and improvements in corporate governance has pushed companies to higher performance levels, why couldn't the Catholic Church -- whose workforce of 1 million is triple the size of General Electric's, and whose annual operating budget of nearly $100 billion would rank it among the nation's largest corporations -- reap the same kinds of rewards?

That's the message the church is beginning to hear from a small group of parishioners who also happen to be CEOs, CFOs and other senior executives from some of the country's most successful private and non-profit organizations. They've formed a team of consultant volunteers known as the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, which is offering a range of talent and expertise, free of charge, to the Catholic Church.

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