Subscribe to the NetworkBook Review: Disruptive Ideas
Josh on November 11th, 2009
Pastor Rick asked each of us to read a business summary of the book Disruptve Ideas. Not sure what he has planned for our church, but I loved the book. Basically it goes after the trappings of corporate culture, and focuses on streamlining decision making and pushing control down as low as possible within an organization. I especially loved the emphasis on volunteers, and how email can be addictive and should be replaced with quick face-to-face meetings as often as possible.
Couple of good questions and thoughts from the book:
- To your team – “do you have what you need?”
- You probably don’t need a team meeting, because you’re always meeting.
- Job shadowing is the fastest way to grow skill sets within an organization. Youth ministry translation: what volunteers do I need to bring alongside me to eventually lead/take over huge areas of ministry?
- The “Focus Police” will try to disrupt people learning new things and try to keep everyone specialists (and therefore, their job safe)
- Everyone should be on the lookout for new talent.
JG
