Each month in the Church Leader Insights newsletter I recommend two books.  This month one of the books was:

THE BREAKTHROUGH COMPANY
How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
by Keith R. McFarland

There are two diagrams in the book that have changed my leadership thinking forever. One is a diagram that shows how to move from start-up to mature organization and the other is a ladder that shows how your leadership style must develop as the organization (read: church) grows. In many ways this book is a ‘Good-To-Great-for-smaller-companies’ but the parallels to church leadership are just as relevant as those from Jim Collins.

Here’s just one quote:

‘However good you are—or think you are—you can’t do it alone. Learn how to surround your company with networks of outside resources, aka ‘scaffolding,’ and how to enlist the aid of ‘insultants’—people who are willing to question a firm’s existing assumptions and ways of doing business.’

Nelson Searcy

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