Sticky Teams Quotes

“If you don’t have the guts to speak up on the front end, you don’t have the right to complain on the back end. So shut up—and speak up next time.”
― Larry Osborne, Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page

“If Jesus put Simon the Zealot (an insurrectionist who hated the Roman occupiers) on the same team as Matthew the tax collector (a collaborator with the Romans) and then made them room together, I’m not sure why we can’t have some strong differences on the hot-button issues of our day and still march together under the banner of unity.”
― Larry Osborne, Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page

“Frankly, not many people show up. But that’s a sign of high trust, not low commitment (the measure of commitment is best found in our high number of volunteers, not in how few show up for a boring business meeting).”
― Larry Osborne, Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page

“And if I, as pastor, have failed to do my part to train my leaders to lead, what right do I have to complain about the way they do their job or make their decisions?”
― Larry Osborne, Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page

“Specialists who can’t become trainers or who aren’t willing to become trainers will eventually put a ceiling on the growth of your church or bust your budget.”
― Larry Osborne, Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page

“Leadership boards and staff members who fill executive roles tend to make two mistakes when it comes to policy: (1) they have too many policies, and (2) they treat every policy as if it were a law from God himself.”
― Larry Osborne, Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page