Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Good friends cooking a spaghetti dinner for 1000


Cooking a spaghetti dinner for a thousand people in American Samoa is much like the same job in Louisiana. Find a church, (in this case the Cathedral of the Holy Family), get some hard working volunteers (including my Jewish golf partner and lawyer), spices, meat, tomato sauce and spaghetti and cook 'em up. My friends in the picture are what I call the 2%.

Here is my thesis. Concerning volunteer work in charitable groups, all of the work is done by 2% of the membership for everyone else. The 2% rule applies to all volunteer organizations. If you belong to enough organizations you will find THE SAME PEOPLE who serve as the 2% of that organization's membership who do all the work. These people are that 2%, look for them the next time you need something done.

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