Episode 638: Jon Chasteen on How to Lead Broken Churches and Organizations You Inherited, the Post-Mortem of Leading a Church After a Moral Failure, and How to Know When to Kill What Your Predecessor Built or Leave it Alone

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Episode 638: Jon Chasteen on How to Lead Broken Churches and Organizations You Inherited, the Post-Mortem of Leading a Church After a Moral Failure, and How to Know When to Kill What Your Predecessor Built or Leave it Alone

Jon Chasteen talks about what he learned after being picked (at age 34) to be the senior pastor of a megachurch after the founding pastor’s moral failure. He discusses the keys to leading broken churches and organizations you inherited, does a post-mortem on leading a church after a moral failure, and shares how to know when to kill what your predecessor built or when to leave it alone.

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A lot of people know what to do. The biggest challenge is knowing when to do it. - Jon Chasteen Click To TweetThe greatest thing any leader could ever do is just to do what you say you're going to do. - Jon Chasteen Click To TweetIf you want to change the culture of an organization, change the way people talk. - Jon Chasteen Click To TweetWhen you're a re-leader, you didn't start it, grow it, or build it. You've come to redo it, restart it, rebuild it. - Jon Chasteen Click To Tweet

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