Cracking Your Church's Culture Code : Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration

by Chand, Samuel R.

• ISBN13: 9780470627815
• ISBN10: 0470627816
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-26
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Why is it that the best strategic plans and good leadership often are not able to move churches in the desired direction and mission? Sam Chand contends that toxic culture is to blame. Quite often, leaders don't sense the toxicity, but it poisons their relationships and derails their vision.This work describes five easily identifiable categories of church culture (inspiring-accepting-stagnant-discouraging-toxic), and provides a separate online assessment tool to help readers diagnose the situation in their own organizations. The reader will be able to identify strengths and needs of their church's culture, and then apply practical strategies (communication, control and authority, selection and placement of personnel, etc.) to make their culture more positive.

Author Biography

Dr. Samuel Chand speaks regularly at leadership conferences, churches, corporations, ministerial conferences, seminars and other leadership development opportunities. He was named in the list of the Top 30 Global Leadership Gurus by www.leadershipgurus.net. Dr. Chand serves on the board of EQUIP (Dr. John Maxwell's ministry), working with five million leaders worldwide, and assists Bishop Eddie L. Long's leadership development team.

Table of Contents

About Leadership Network	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Culture Trumps Vision	p. 1
Culture Killers	p. 21
Seven Keys of Culture	p. 41
Vocabulary Defines Culture	p. 61
Change Starts with Me	p. 87
The Catalyst of Chaos	p. 113
Changing Vehicles	p. 137
Yes, You Can!	p. 165
Overview of the Free Culture Survey	p. 181
Strategic Planning Grid	p. 183
To-Do List and Status Report for Major Items	p. 185
Notes	p. 187
The Author	p. 191
Other Books	p. 193
Index	p. 195
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