Review: Innovation’s Dirty Little Secret
Larry Osborne
Zondervan
2013
This book is much better than it could’ve been. Yes, I’ve read Lencioni and a few others and
this one can hold its own with them.
First of all it isn’t all about how to run a church. It isn’t pure business either. What Osborne covers is important for both
sides. Lots of people skills here and he
doesn’t mince words about how to deal with problems---your own and the others. Deal with them, but maybe from an angle you
hadn’t expected to read.
His first section starts right. You have to have an exit strategy ready at
the outset. Innovations fail frequently
and damage control matters for everyone and especially the leader of the
group. Communication strategies
matter. Picking the right battle, having
a clear vision that is clear to more than the leader matter. Enlisting the right people at the right time
matters, identifying the right people matters.
The size team and governance matters.
All that is stuff you know or have read about. Osborne gives his reader a few tips about
each of those areas and a little more. I
say a few because this book is only 170 plus pages. An airport read size book. Important for the guy that's busy.
His style is condensed and direct and in some cases may even
ruffle your feathers. That’s OK. They’ll settle back into place. But hopefully not before you have given some
thought to why that was so. He warns of
the dangers of success, too. It does
come with some.
This one is one for you and your team to look at and absorb
what the author has to say. Talk about
it and begin the process.
This book was provided to me by the publisher via Booksneeze
in exchange for a review.
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