{"id":277,"date":"2010-07-21T21:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2010-07-21T21:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T04:40:06","slug":"jim-collins-on-excellence-in-church-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/jim-collins-on-excellence-in-church-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Collins on Excellence in Church Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I happened on an excellent session<\/a> from Catalyst 2008 with Andy Stanley interviewing Jim Collins<\/a> about keeping employees who are a poor fit in a position. Andy says that churches are all about mercy — so sometimes, out of compassion for the employee, we keep people in positions for which they aren’t a good match. Watch Collins’ reply here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a great point in there, too: “The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve probably made a hiring mistake.” (Watch Stanley’s face when Collins says that.) That’s an excellent clue and we ignore it at peril to our mission.<\/p>\n

Another excellent point: instead of giving people titles and rules, give them responsibilities. People should be able to say, “I am the one person in this organization who is ultimately responsible for [whatever it is<\/cite>].”<\/p>\n

(I found this video on Catalyst’s Youtube channel which has a ton of other content that ranges from Dallas Willard and John Ortberg<\/a> all the way to Trip and Tyler<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I happened on an excellent session from Catalyst 2008 with Andy Stanley interviewing Jim Collins about keeping employees who are a poor fit in a position. Andy says that churches are all about mercy — so sometimes, out of compassion for the employee, we keep people in positions for which they aren’t a good match. … Continue reading »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[75,96,15,16,134,177,197],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-andy-stanley","tag-catalyst","tag-church","tag-compassion","tag-employees","tag-jim-collins","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}