Title: The decision-makers; how to improve the quality of decision-making in the churches
Authors: Schaller, Lyle E.
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Year: 1974
Subjects: Church management; Decision making.
Contents: 1. How Decisions Are Made -- Getting on the Agenda -- Consensus or Majority? -- Influencing Decisions -- "One of us" -- The Impact of Tradition -- Reducing the Power of Tradition -- The Location of Decision-Making -- Decisions or Choices? -- The Four Basic Decision Situations -- Types of Decisions -- Influences on the Process -- The Three Basic Power Centers -- Steps in Decision-Making -- 2. What Is Your Frame of Reference? -- The Real Lay-Clergy Gap -- When Were You Born? -- What About Original Sin? -- What About the Holy Spirit? -- Commitment and the Church -- Types of Churches -- How Large Is Small? -- the Rule of Forty -- 3. Pressures of Institutionalism -- Forms of Institutional Pressure -- In Defense of Denominationalism -- The Question of Scale -- What Are the Choices?