All Hat, No Cattle

In the previous article, I finished with the claim that, like the sharks on Shark Tank, a pro-life philanthropist who saw a typical PHC’s “sales” results, would say to a PHC board of directors and its executives, “I’m out, until you fix this.”
 
In their competition against Planned Parenthood, the vast majority of PHCs in the U.S. cannot bring forward a data-centric analysis that proves to a prospective pro-life philanthropist that there is significant demand for the PHC’s “choose life” product offering, as measured by market share…

Into the Shark Tank

In yesterday’s article, I claimed that for a typical PHC, the board members’ own strong emotional desires to end abortion results in them losing objectivity when evaluating the performance of the PHC executives and team members responsible for getting results.
 
Subjective feelings based on emotional intent and trying hard, replace objective data revealing measurable success…

The Best of Intentions

Economist Milton Friedman once said in reference to governmental public policy programs, “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” (emphasis mine)
 
This weekend, I had a fruitful discussion with my youngest son about the importance of measuring success using dispassionate metrics – dispassionate here meaning objective and unemotional…

From Top to Bottom

The Board of Directors of a “benefactor-centered” Pregnancy Help Center (PHC) has decided, based on market share data that reveals the PHC is losing its competitive battle against Planned Parenthood, that it must bring in new leadership to transform the PHC into an organization that can compete successfully, as measured by market share…

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