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A non-profit executive, on the job for eight years, who's suddenly revealed to be an incompetent by outsiders, points more fingers at the organization's directors than at the executive.

As embattled Southern Baptist leader Bob Reccord met with prominent pastors April 13 seeking advice about his future, several of his own trustees at the North American Mission Board urged him to resign as the agency's president.

Reccord took the brunt of a scathing report issued by NAMB trustees March 23, which faulted the missions leader for poor management, autocratic decision-making, extravagant spending on failed ministry projects, apparent conflicts of interest in no-bid contracts for a friend, and creating a "culture of fear" that prevented staffers from questioning the abuses.

After meeting all day behind closed doors March 23 to weigh the results of the investigation, trustees stopped short of forcing Reccord to resign the post he has held eight years. Several told Associated Baptist Press the board offered not to release the critical 19-page report if Reccord resigned at the time.

Three years maximum is all that's needed to reveal a man's ability to lead a large organization to meet its goals. Eight years only says there's a "good ol' boy" group in place, or there are poor communication of goals, or there's little or no accountability or measurement in place.

In our search for bigger churches, bigger agencies, and bigger HQs, we'd be well served to remember bigger is not always better ... but bigger does always have bigger problems.

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Religion, SBC, Southern Baptists