From Todd Bolsinger:
I spent the past few days speaking on adaptive leadership to church leaders of Fellowship of Presbyterians. After being asked a lot of questions, I decided to repost this piece from October 11, 2011, to give some context for my own journey into learning to lead differently. For those who attended my Fellowship Meeting plenary or my workshop (or those who missed it) the slides are here:
Download Canoeing the Mountains_Leading Through Adaptive Change_Tee up_FOP
Download Adapt and_or die_Toward adaptive capacity
At the end of our 2006-2007 fiscal year, our church had a $100,000 general fund surplus. In twenty years of church work, I had never seen anything like it. By all common measures, we were doing as well as a church as we could ever hope.
We were in our tenth consecutive year of growth in worship attendance and membership. We had faced all the obvious and not-so-obvious challenges before us. We had unified around a vision, we had applied disciplined thinking and acting to most of our ministries, we had even rebuilt our entire campus around our vision to be an intergenerational “Community for the community.”