The Importance of Assembling the ‘Right Team’

One of the greatest insights that I have ever read on this subject matter comes from Jim Collins' book Good to Great. He (in my own words) basically said, before you even think of deciding where it is that you want to go as an organisations you need to

1. Get the right people on the bus (your leadership team)
   
2. The wrong people of the bus.
   
3. The right people in the right seats.
   

Your leadership team is key, I (me not Jim) almost want to say the key (other than obviously God.) Without the right leadership team in place you will only spin your wheels in the mud. The organisation will never grow beyond its leadership ability. If your leadership team is able to lead a 150 people and you have a church of 300, the church will eventually (and this can be a long and painful process) dwindle down to a 150. If your leadership team has the ability to lead a group of 500 and you have a church of 300, they will take it to 500, it will only be a matter of time (again this will obviously only happen if God is in it.)

If you want to grow the church beyond 500, you will have to grow your own leadership capacity as well as the capacity of your team in order to do so or you will have to get those that have the ability to lead a 1000 on the bus as soon as possible.