On Wednesday I will be participating in a unique training experience on "The Drucker 5." In 1993, Peter Drucker wrote about 5 key assessment questions for non-profits. Recently these questions have been republished in an inspiring tool with multiple contributors. There is some additional info here.
Here are the five questions:
1) What is our mission?
2) Who is our customer?
3) What does the customer value?
4) What are our results?
5) What is our plan?
An interesting side note is that although I was unaware of this content at the time I wrote Church Unique, I too ask five questions as the pathway to ultimate clarity. There is an interesting sense of shared "irreducible minimums" between Drucker's questions and mine, with mine being more fine-tuned for the local church.
My favorite quote from the book:
"Doesn't logic tell us that the simple questions should also be easiest to answer? No. Simple questions can be profound and answering them requires us to make stark and honest- and sometimes painful- self assessments. "