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Made to Flourish
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Every organization is made to flourish. But when problems arise, quick fixes and poor leadership training can drag it down. The key to a thriving team is to look below the surface at the hidden dynamics that can cause it to lose focus, turn inwardor even cease to exist. Budget problems, personality conflicts, mission drift, government regulations—all these and more can tempt us to respond rapidly and superficially.Shelley Trebesch offers leaders the tools needed to develop practical solutions that actually work. She provides a model for getting a firm hold on the complexities inherent in any team. Diagrams help readers visualize key dynamics while vivid case studies illustrate how to put the book into practice.Here is the book that gives churches, NGOs, mission agencies, parachurch groups, other nonprofits, businesses and teams within these groups what they need. Trebesch charts the path to the life-giving, holistic, fruitful abundance that God intended for organizations and everyone in them.
1. A Vision to Flourish
2. Languishing or Flourishing? Predicting the Ripple-Effects of Change
3. The ECO Model at Work
4. Flourishing People
5. DNA: The Life Force of Flourishing Organizations
6. Putting Your DNA to Work
7. The Discipline of Flourishing—Organization and Capacity Development
8. Making Organization Development Work for You
9. The Ecosystem of Flourishing—Culture
10. Making Culture Work for You
11. The Ecosystem of Flourishing—Structure
12. The Nuts and Bolts of Structure
13. The Future of Flourishing—Innovation and Entrepreneurs
14. Flourishing: A Daily Reality
15. One Organization's Story
16. Flourishing Organizations
Acknowledgments
Appendix 1: Technical Aspects of Flourishing
Appendix 2: Flourishing Developmental Assessment Tool
Notes
Index