The idea of organizational culture seems obscure and difficult to define at first glance, especially in the church world. A more formal definition of organizational culture might be “the underlying assumptions and beliefs shared by a group of people that operate unconsciously in ...
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Organizational Health
The Code of Leadership Pipeline Construction –
By Rob Jacobs
Nearly 2000 years before Jesus, the then king of Old Babylon developed the first law code for Mesopotamia. His name was Hammurabi, and his laws are known to us today as “The Code of Hammurabi.” One of the clauses of the code called for people to be put to death if ...
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7 Personality Types of Sick Churches –
by Thom Rainer
Sick churches become dying churches.
Dying churches become closed churches.
Those statements are factual unless some type of change or intervention takes place. But intervention or change is unlikely unless the church recognizes that it is sick.
In simple ...
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3 Leadership Lessons We Need to Learn from the Past –
by Selma Wilson
Most people see history as a waste of time. It’s not always exciting to hear stories about the past, and many reserve this for the older generation. It’s true that glamorizing the past can leave you longing to go back rather than forward. But ignoring the past ...
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Church Leadership and Succession –
by Todd Adkins
A critical part of leadership is recognizing that your fruit grows on other people’s trees. Fruitful leadership focuses on the responsibility of healthy leadership reproduction as the primary way to cultivate ministry expansion. You are not successful as a leader ...
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Why The Church Needs Business Principles –
I had a conversation recently with a long time evangelist and church leader. He was bemoaning the state of leadership in the church and at one point said, with great passion, “Pastors are not CEOs; they’re shepherds!” He is right. The pastor is not the Chief Executive Officer of ...
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