On our way back to North Carolina from Iowa, Amanda and I flew on a CRJ-50, pictured above in case your were curious.
We sat in row 8.
As we were waiting for our flight to begin, the pilot made an announcement to the passengers that the plane was overweight. Not overbooked, just overweight. Due to body weight and cargo weight, the plane couldn’t take off. If we would have taken off, we would have crashed (I am glad he made us wait for someone to get off the plane).
An irritated guy had to get off the flight because no one would voluntarily give up their seat, and the flight was delayed (delayed is better than dead). Nonetheless, people were less than thrilled, especially the dude standing back at the gate watching his flight leave without him.
This happens when we:
don’t count the cost before we start a /project/program/ministry
and always forces:
people to unnecessarily deal with frustration/delay/disruption
Some things don’t require 40 people sitting around the table (body weight) and the green light by every department in the organization (cargo weight).
We also can’t take an idea and outrun ourselves with it.
Assessment is the friend of the gungho leader.