Sticky Teams : Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page
, by Larry Osborne
- ISBN: 9780310324645 | 0310324645
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/19/2010
Serving as a church leader can be a tough assignment. Whatever your role, odds are you've known your share of the frustration, conflict, and disillusionment that come with silly turf battles, conflicting vision, and marathon meetings.
Larry Osborne is the lead pastor at North Coast Church in northern San Diego County, which is widely recognized as one of the most influential and innovative churches in America. He speaks extensively on the subjects of leadership and spiritual formation. His books include Sticky Church, 10 Dumb Things Smart Christians Believe and Spirituality for the Rest of Us. He and his wife, Nancy, live in Oceanside, California.
| Foreword | p. 13 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 17 |
| Introduction: Sticky Teams; What Makes Them Different? | p. 19 |
| What sticky teams do | |
| The power of genuine unity and cohesiveness | |
| Fighting fair, sticking together | |
| Why healthy and unified teams are so hard to come by | |
| Why I wrote this book | |
| Three groups that absolutely must work together | |
| The Unity Factor: The One Thing That Can't Be Left to Chance | p. 23 |
| Why it's a shocker that I got saved and called into ministry | |
| Why unity is worth worrying about | |
| Where to start | |
| Brian's sad story | |
| Achan's big mistake and what it teaches us about unity | |
| Defining unity | |
| Hot buttons and hot flashes | |
| Deciding what you won't fight over | |
| The difference between friends and strangers | |
| Philosophical unity and why it matters big time | |
| Landmines and Roadblocks: The Traditions, Policies, and Structures That Unintentionally Sabotage Unity | |
| Why Boards Go Bad: Structured for Conflict | p. 35 |
| My first board meeting | |
| The dumbest debate ever | |
| The five biggest roadblocks to unity | |
| Why location matters | |
| What happens when you sit on my couch | |
| Let's be friends | |
| Who would run a business this way? Who would want to run anything this way? | |
| The two most powerful people in any large decision-making group | |
| Is this what Paul had in mind? | |
| Family systems: boredom personified | |
| Why I smiled when a board member cried | |
| Guarding the Gate: No Guts, No Unity | p. 47 |
| Winning teams need winning players | |
| Why it's so hard to get rid of a loser | |
| Protecting the board gate | |
| Speak up or shut up | |
| Why representatives make for bad board members | |
| The "no theys" rule | |
| The only question that matters | |
| Pit bulls for Jesus | |
| Philosophical alignment | |
| Why the best players sometimes make bad team members | |
| Protecting the staff gate | |
| Good enough usually isn't | |
| Why résumés always look better than people | |
| Why giftedness is overrated | |
| What Game Are We Playing? How Growth Changes Everything | p. 61 |
| Bible verses and straitjackets | |
| Surviving an attempted coup | |
| How track, golf, basketball, and football parallel the changes in a growing organization and why leaders and teams who don't adapt pay such a high price | |
| Todd's frustration | |
| Two signs that the game has changed but nobody got the memo | |
| Why changes sneak up on us | |
| Why adding people and programs multiplies complexity | |
| One thing Tiger Woods will never do | |
| Six Things Every Leadership Team Needs to Know: Axioms to Lead By | p. 73 |
| The six urban legends of leadership | |
| Why most of your weaknesses don't matter | |
| Why surveys are a waste of time | |
| The myth of buy-in and why it kills innovation | |
| The truth about squeaky wheels and why you don't want to oil them | |
| When it's time for a nice Christian burial | |
| Fuzzy budgets and flexible policies, why you need them and why control freaks can't stand them | |
| Clarifying the Pastor's Role: Why Leadership Matters | p. 87 |
| Why the best role for a pastor depends on the pastor and the church | |
| A bad day at the pancake house | |
| Whose church is it? | |
| The power of time and commitment | |
| Why so many people see their pastor as an outsider | |
| Determining who's best qualified to lead | |
| The power of time and training | |
| Pastors who can't lead | |
| Harnessing a strong leader | |
| The power of a first draft | |
| Why secrets kill | |
| Leading and listening | |
| Clarifying Board and Staff Roles: Why Teamwork Matters | p. 101 |
| Cutting off conflict before it occurs | |
| The changing role of the board | |
| From doing to approving? | |
| When reviewing makes sense | |
| Setting North Star direction and boundaries | |
| The curse of micromanagement | |
| What if your church goes mega? | |
| When staff roles must change | |
| Generalist to specialist | |
| Doing to empowering | |
| No more silos | |
| Hamstrung on purpose | |
| Making Room at the Top: Why Young Eagles Don't Stay | p. 113 |
| The strange case of the ever-shrinking freshmen | |
| What happens when the seniors never graduate | |
| Leadership is a zero-sum game and why that leaves little room at the top | |
| Three key questions | |
| Why empowerment needs a platform | |
| How a name change changed everything | |
| Why I used to come back from vacation a day early | |
| In the loop or in the meeting? | |
| Who gets to ride shotgun? | |
| Tenure or talent? | |
| The power of a zero-based retreat | |
| Equipped for Ministry: Getting Everyone on the Same Page | |
| Equipped to Lead: Lobbying isn't Training | p. 127 |
| The difference between lobbying and training and why it matters | |
| The danger of educational separation | |
| Why short devotions don't help mush | |
| What a direct-mail copywriter taught me about ministry | |
| Why training always works best when it stands alone | |
| When most people do their best thinking | |
| Why the process is more important than the content | |
| Why boring is not always bad | |
| Why John's company would have been shocked | |
| Board Alignment: The Power of an Extra "Shepherds' Meeting" | p. 139 |
| The three important things most boards never have time to do | |
| Why an extra meeting makes for better meetings | |
| The ideal environment for leadership and ministry training | |
| Why on-the-job training is the best kind of training | |
| Why prayer works best in a separate meeting | |
| How time and growth change things | |
| When the names have no faces | |
| Staff Alignment: Plumb Lines and Assumptions | p. 149 |
| Why staff alignment used to be a breeze | |
| Road trips, hyper dogs, and scenic routes and what they have to do with leading a multiple staff | |
| How to deal with a geeked-up zealot | |
| Why generic is worthless and politically correct is incorrect | |
| Why effective leaders are almost always weird and what they should do about it | |
| A coach who didn't care about potential and how that helped him produce a national champion | |
| Mission statements and mission creep | |
| The difference between plumb lines and wish lists | |
| Congregational Alignment: Preempting Conflict | p. 159 |
| An argument in the parking lot | |
| Five tools for congregational alignment | |
| Why so many mission statements sit in a drawer somewhere | |
| Thinning the herd with a front-loaded pastor's class | |
| From crossed arms to nodding heads | |
| The drip method of preaching | |
| Sermon-based small groups | |
| Short and sweet congregational meetings | |
| Why you never want to give a moron a microphone | |
| Why a three-week meeting results in a shorter meeting | |
| Communication: Keeping Everyone on the Same Page | |
| Change Diplomacy: Minimizing Conflict and Chaos | p. 171 |
| The dark years | |
| What "I love you in the Lord" really means | |
| Why churches and horses are a lot alike | |
| Why resistance to change isn't a spiritual problem | |
| One thing politicians can teach pastors | |
| Why resisters can be an innovator's best friend | |
| Why VMTP was a great name | |
| God and last night's pizza | |
| Choose who you lose | |
| Monogrammed shirts and flip-flops | |
| Setting Salaries: Investment or Expense? | p. 183 |
| Why setting ministry salaries is a lot like a junior high dance | |
| The vital need for honest feedback | |
| Why too much salary is seldom a good thing | |
| The most important comparison: replacement cost | |
| School teachers and company presidents, where does your pastor fit in? | |
| What if more money comes in? | |
| Are staff members an investment or an expense? | |
| How to tell the difference | |
| Talking about Money: Assumptions, Facts, and a Savings Account | p. 191 |
| Are you flying blind? | |
| Is it a sin to have a savings account? | |
| The one thing a crisis and an opportunity never send ahead of time | |
| Should a pastor know who gives what? | |
| Why I changed my mind | |
| A strange email | |
| Why facts make for better plans | |
| Smoking out the winners | |
| Thanking donors | |
| Is your church playing with one hand tied behind its back? | |
| When Things Go Wrong: Telling the Truth When the Truth Is Hard | p. 201 |
| Some letters you never want to write | |
| Moral failures | |
| Is your paradigm family or justice? | |
| The worst board meeting of my life, at least so far | |
| The first two questions everyone wants to know in a financial crisis | |
| God-talk or straight talk? | |
| Why C players are so hard to get rid of | |
| Why pumping sunshine is never a good idea | |
| Conclusion: Final Thoughts: Sticky Teams and the Gates of Hell | p. 211 |
| Beyond platitudes and wishful thinking | |
| What Paul and Barnabas can teach us about the impact of "loving Jesus" on staff harmony | |
| Exposing the elephants in the room | |
| Why I'm an optimist even when confronted by a pit-bull board member, an Absalom on the staff, or a congregation full of crazies | |
| Discussion Questions | p. 213 |
| Notes | p. 222 |
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