Innovative Business Ideas for Churches - The Series

Welcome to the "home page" for the Innovative Business Ideas for Churches series.  If you found your way here through the Presbyterian Outlook, welcome and leave a comment or two were appropriate.

What you will find in the series are my reflections on books and ideas that have been influential in the business world that I find have relevance to churches.  My focus here is on what church leaders can do to better lead their congregations.  I take a cue from Peter Drucker who said, "Leaders lead people, not organizations."

I welcome your comments, questions, challenges and conversation. It is how we learn. May God bless you with fresh insight for leadership in the 21st century.

Bookmark this page as I will post the link to each entry throughout the series.

#1 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship

#2 - The Fifth Discipline

#3 - The Cluetrain Manifesto 

#4 - Theory of Constraints  

#5 - Mavericks at Work 

#6 - Communication, Marketing and Social Networking

#7 - PyroMarketing

#8 - Seth Godin 

#9 - Social Networks #1 -Linked - Alberto-Lazslo Barabasi

# 10 - Social Networks #2 - Diffusion of Innovations & The Tipping Point

#11 - Marketing in the Church

#12 - Churches in Transition in a Flat-world

#13 - Social Networks #3 - Word of Mouth

      Books to be reviewed in this mini-series:

       The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

        The Anatomy of Buzz - Emanuel Rosen

        Diffusion of Innovations - Everett Rogers

        Creating Customer Evangelists - Ben McConnell & Jackie Huba

#14 - Social Networks #4.1 - How to build your church's social network 

Brokerage & Closure - Ron Burt

#15 - Social Networks #4.2 - How to build your church's social network

#16 - The Changing Practice of Leadership

#17 - Good To Great and Built To Last - Jim Collins

#18 -   Pursuing Excellence in a Disruptive Age- Tom Peters

#19 - Is Mission a Business Idea the Church as Rejected?

#20 - interview with Greg Stielstra, PyroMarketing

#21 - The Leadership Challenge - Kouzes & Posner 

#22 - Is there an Entrepreneurial Future for churches and presbyteries

#23 -  Why am I doing this?

#24 - Innovation at Toyota 

#25 -  Networking and Sales - Jeffrery Gitomer

#26 - Leadership & Self-Deception - the Arbinger Institute 

#27 - The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
 

#28 - A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink 

Coming in February 2007 - Globalism and the Global Church

Coming in the Spring 2007 - Philosophy for Business: Ancient & Modern

I will add additional commentary as I work through this list and realize books that I have left out. For a list of books that I recommend to a general leadership audience, go to my Leading Questions blog and look down the left-hand side bar for my Desert Island book list.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions for topics, either leave a comment here or email me at questions-AT-edbrenegar-DOT-com.