Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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3. To adapt means that you are willing to give up loyalty to bad strategy, and allows for maximum ability to change for the sake of wiser, more effective action.

4. What Adaptation suggests and demands

a. Wide range of modification in team action, from a modest adjustment of a particular play, to a wholesale change in strategy and game plan

b. Either wholesale or modest change, depending on what is determined to be of critical importance

c. In order to adapt, members must be able to change, and be given the freedom and authority to innovate (within certain bounds).

5. The opposite of Adaptation is conformity to tradition and past methodologies .

6. The result of not adapting is prolonged failure in a familiar course of action .

D. The Golden Key: Grant team leaders and members the authority and right to adapt their methods and directions in order to increase team effectiveness.

The Final Binding Result: When the following principles are employed consistently, you can enable the team to INTEGRATE its efforts together, both individually and corporately. This is the highest goal of all effective team play. • To facilitate each team member and units of team members’ function together as significant parts of a single, unified whole. • To integrate something involves joining, combining, and adapting a system of parts in order to attain a particular effect together as a whole. This is the culmination of all the other principles in operation, which results in a team where each individual element links up to form an effective, working unit, blending their several and individual efforts into a single, functioning, and unified whole. More than anything, integration demands that all members adopt as its primary perspective and mindset