# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S250
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

250 RESOLUTIONS — COMMITTEE 6

at the same time upholding and safeguarding the democratic
process. It should be recognized that sporadic drives at effective-
ness and efficiency undertaken in an atmosphere of crisis are
thoroughly unsound and undesirable, as wide experience amply
demonstrates. Attention to effectiveness and efficiency should not
just periodically be promoted at a high pitch of excitement and
tension under the distorting influence of opinionated assertion. It
should rather be built up slowly and patiently, to a sustained
level of calm and methodical but confident thought and action
throughout an organization. This requires two indispensable con-
ditions: first, a good organizational structure which ties various
parts of an organization together so that these parts are able to
function, not as independent and isolated fragments but as co-op-
erating co-ordinate parts of a whole; and second, good leadership
in the organization, not singly by one man but jointly by many
men, and not through the long-discredited process of command,
but through the enlightened and only practical process of per-
suading men freely and by conviction to adopt and to practice
the principles of good administration. The more dispersed and
widely participative leadership becomes, the better. For true
leadership is the art of inducing people to do what they should do,
not because they must, but because they want to do it. True
leadership knows nothing of autocratic command. It knows only
the remarkable power of group action — of free, willing teamwork
toward common ends. We believe this is the whole meaning and
purpose of the organizational structure as set forth in the book
of Reports and Memorials. The proposed organizational structure
holds the Synod’s boards and agencies responsible to the Synod it-
self for policy making, and it holds the Synod’s authorized adminis-
trators responsible for planned and mutually shared execution of
policy. The commission has recommended for immediate action
those measures which it believes should be adopted by this con-
vention, and offers a program for continued study and action on
the more far-reaching needs of the Synod. In view of the vast
scope of the commission’s assignment and the limited time at its
disposal, the commission is to be commended for launching this
study on a sound basis on which present adoption may be made
and future adjustments be implemented after further study.

We therefore offer to the honorable Synod the following res-
olutions: Be it

Resolved, That we commend the members of the Survey Com-
mission and its able research director, Prof. Walter Gast, for their
efforts in obedience to the directive of the 1956 convention of the
Synod. Under divine grace and blessing they have rendered a dis-

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