TA: Rotarian thought

My audience is very specific. It's the president-elect of Rotary Club. I want him to use his influence in the club to help prevent people from wasting their time and money by going and "saving the world" without understanding how the world works. I think that a lot of Rotary Club members want to do something big and be a part of a huge project because it makes them feel like they are contributing to something greater than themselves. They are a service-oriented group. They want to be active and involved. They like to go-and-do and get their hands dirty in a good cause. It's American Jihad. So how do you control a group of workers who are all motivated by an individual inner drive to serve?
The real problem is that we need order. If everyone tries to accomplish the same goal in a hundred different ways, you end up with a hundred half-finished projects and no money left. If you take a hundred efforts and combine them in one, your work will be finished, and you will have plenty of leftover money and work energy. If you're going to change the world, you need synergy, and a lot of resources.
When Rotary Club goes out to help poor people in Africa, it's a good cause, but it's done wrong. Rotarians are wasting money and effort, but they don't see it. They see themselves as heroes who just need to do a little more. We need to placate the hero in them while helping them to see the synergy argument. It's hard to people who "just want to help NOW" to wait a little while. It's like telling a kid he can't have cake until after dinner. It's better in the long run, but we need to do some other things first.
I guess I'm trying to argue patience to a bunch of g0-getters. That's really what it boils down to.