We suffer from short-tenured leaders who are given almost limitless power and no time to use it effectively. Grand Lodges and Grand York Rite Bodies have little managerial continuity.
Most Grand Lodges elect a new Grand Master each year, who barely has time to pick a motto and a flower before he's running around the state on the grand visitation circuit.
He may start a new program or institute a new policy, but it will fade as fast as his flower without the wholehearted support of his successors, and they may have their own hobbyhorses to ride.
Only the Scottish Rite, with its long- serving state leaders, has created a managerial structure in Masonry that allows organizational continuity of significant programs and policies, rather than the mindless maintenance of the status quo.
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2007 - Traditional Masonic bodies are overburdened with constricting rules and nitpicking regulations - Bro S Brent Morris.
