An ngo must be a boat If you make sailing, you need to define a destination. I think a lot of organizations have problems because they don’t have a goal. A company define the goal more easily. Oftenly sellings are the goal of a company. Ngo’s have difficulties to define the goal because founders think that the object of the association and the goal are the same thing. Unfortunately, an ngo which wants to protect the nature need to define one or more goals to act. In a boat, each person has something to do and obey the orders of the commander who define the destination. If you observ members of an ngo, you don’t see a crew. You see involved persons who work a lot but each member of the team do things on their own. They hardly accept a « military » organization of the activity. An activist is a volunteer and don’t want to work in the same way an employee. One day, Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of the NGO Médecins sans Frontières said that the best humanitarian « NGO » he saw in the field was the army. He spoke about the efficient…