The Winning Team

In his popular seminars on leadership, management guru William A. Cohen often asks his audience if they can think of any organization which has all these attributes: • The workers work very hard physically, including weekends, with little complaint. • The workers receive no money and little material compensation for their ser-. vices. • The work is dangerous and workers are frequently injured on the job. • The work is strictly voluntary. • The workers usually have very high morale. • The organization always has more workers than can be employed. • The workers are highly motivated to achieve the organization’s goals.

The executives attending Cohen’s seminars are frequently stumped, thinking there is no organization like this on earth. But Cohen knows of one such organization: A high school football team.

Christians know another: the church.