Re: Volunteers

[Gerry Snyder <geraldcsnyder@gmail.com>]

On 1/29/2012 1:28 PM, Robert Pries wrote:
> There is a strange socio-economic rule that seems to apply to almost all
> situations called the 20/80 rule. In business 80% of your sales are on 20% of
> your merchandize. In Volunteer organizations 20% of your members do 80% of the
> work.

I would amend the above to say that in my experience only 20% ever do an 
appreciable amount of work during their period of membership, with the 
number helping out significantly at any one time being much closer to 10%.

But all of Bob's points are still valid. We are not utilizing even 10%.

Gerry

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