Sticky Teams - A Short Review

Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page

A few months ago I got an email from a friend who used to work on staff with Larry Osborne at his church in California.  He asked me if I had read, Sticky Teams yet.  I said "no".  He said, in essence, "Run, don't walk, to your computer and get that book ordered. You should have finished it yesterday!"  As a church planter who is starting a church from scratch, we have the unique chance to build a very healthy leadership team from the start and Sticky Teams has been a gift from God in that regard.  

Let me put it this way.  If you are on staff at a church or in leadership at any level, you are going to want to read this book.  Chalked full of years of pastoral wisdom from beginning to end, this book addresses how to lead the church well as a team.  How many churches do you know that came unglued because the leadership was not on the same page?  If the leadership is not on the same page the church will crumble.  But if they are lovingly unified around a common mission and commitment to each other there ain't much that is going to take them down.  

I'm sure that many of you are serving on teams that are not quite "clicking".  This book will help you see why.  Buy it for your whole team and go through it together.  It will bless you.  I know there will be many reasons for me to return to this book in the future as I serve on a local church leadership team in the future.