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When to Decentralize…and When Not To

	Ministry, Communications	HR, Finance, Branding, Facilities, IT	HR, Finance, Communications, Facilities	HR, Finance, Facilities
When it is important to have…	Agility	Reliability	Efficiency	Sustainability
…advantage favors…	Decentralization	Centralization	Centralization	Centralization
…as the solution enables and encourages…	Immediacy	Compliance	Syndication	Detachment

subsidiarity - the principle that a central authority should perform only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level

So what does “reliable” mean?

How can we tell if the trellis is well-structured for the vine?
We define standards in order to set clear expectations for everyone about what reliability looks like.

And how do we keep our trellis “reliable”?

<aside> <img src="/icons/thought_gray.svg" alt="/icons/thought_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Since our shared expertise (HR), facilities, finances, and equipment resource our ministry leaders to help leaders help people find and follow Jesus, we must prioritize clarity around those resources for our staff.

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“Companies overemphasize the soft side of change: leadership style, corporate culture, employee motivation…change projects can’t get off the ground unless companies address harder elements first.”

How we resource our staff and leaders is a matter of stewardship with eternal consequences.

Operating from a single source of truth

Information overload results from an always-on, more-is-better approach to communication. It requires energy, expertise, and coordination to architect human-centric communication practices.

<aside> <img src="/icons/thought_gray.svg" alt="/icons/thought_gray.svg" width="40px" /> An operational single source of truth would bolster the agility and reliability and efficiency and sustainability of our operations.

How we work together sets the foundation for what we achieve together.

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Case studies

Austin Stone Communication Expectations

Chronicle remote work stack

Next steps

We can’t manage what we can’t measure, and we can’t measure what we can’t see.

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When to Decentralize…and When Not To

So what does “reliable” mean?

And how do we keep our trellis “reliable”?

Operating from a single source of truth

Case studies

Austin Stone Communication Expectations

Chronicle remote work stack

Dropbox’s Virtual First Toolkit

37signals Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication

Meeting agendas with accountable action items

Fellows Program Home

Next steps

1. Identify our core organizing principles and define the structures we share

2. Clarify and maintain an up-to-date single source of truth around each shared operational resource