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LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Osborne Analysis
Submitted to Dr. Benjamin Forrest, in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the completion of the course,
LEAD 699
Internship in Pastoral Leadership
by
Tiago Souza
July 19, 2014
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Sticky Teams 1
Sticky Church 3
Inovations, Dirty Little Secret 4
Conclusion 5
Bibliography 6
Introduction
This project will focus on three of Larry Osborne’s writings, seeking to investigate his important principles and concepts on the important theme of “Leadership”. “Sticky Teams” is a practical book with valuable insights as far as practical leadership, containing valuable advices for leading a team in an effective way in different contexts. “Sticky Church” has a similar structure, but its content is more focused in an ecclesiological reality, containing advices more focused to the pastor’s role and themes relevant to church like spiritual growth, and senior leadership (“keep your leadership team and staff on the same page”) for instance. “Inovations: Dirty Little Secret” is also a interesting book, but it contains practical advices more related on how to behave when the innovations a leader try to implant doesn’t go as he expected, and how to respond to failure, which is a key tool for a good leader.
Sticky Teams
“Sticky Teams Stick Together”. That is the initial sentence of Osborne’s first book to be analyzed on this project and the content is built around on effective ways to keep leadership team and staff on the same page, firmly believing that healthy, growing churches result when there is a unified board, unified staff and unified congregation. In order to achieve that, the book contains three main parts: Part one is Landmines and Roadblocks, which discusses the organizational structures, polices, and traditions that can sabotage even the best teams. Part two is Equipped for Ministry, which talks about getting everyone reading off the same...