Episode Four: Tim O'Neill and The Values Clash

Tim O'Neill is Director of Exponential Australia and also heads up A2A (the Acts 2 Alliance)  network of churches. With his wife Sharon, he also leads Tailrace Community Church, a church that they planted 27 years ago.

In this episode, Tim brings his 'prophetic gift of hindsight' onto The Blunder Bus, to talk about a great episode of leadership failure. Tim talks about the critical issue of developing culture (in this case, in a church planting situation). Totally without realising it, Tim made a leadership decision which led to a 'Values Clash' in the church, with different groups of people valuing different expressions of church life, in a way which almost tore the church apart.

Tim mentions some other great insights along the way. He talks about his ability to 'Fail Forward'! And he also references some great resources on developing values and culture. Check out 'Built To Last' by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras (a leadership classic!) and 'The Advantage' by Patrick Lencioni.

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