Trong cuốn sách mới này rất cần thiết George Baker đã phát hiện ra một bí mật mới để thành công trong công việc và cuộc sống. Họ chứng minh lý do tại sao những nhóm nhỏ liên kết quan trọng cho cả hai lãnh đạo và phát triển cá nhân, và thích ứng với một năm giai đoạn thành lập nhóm nghiên cứu xây dựng định dạng, hiển thị chính xác làm thế nào để tạo thành một nhóm mới | 2Ó TRUE NORTH GROUPS grief groups therapy groups Alcoholics Anonymous and twelve-step groups that are affiliated around a particular purpose and share deeply about that area including discussions of personal feelings convictions and beliefs. Many prayer groups and Bible study groups offer their members opportunities for examination of their religious beliefs and provide strong bonding around shared values. True North Groups as described in this book provide a forum for deep intimate discussions of all aspects of one s life not only matters of belief and faith. These may include personal issues such as family problems leadership and career concerns or healthy living as well as convictions about a wide spectrum of subjects. They are fairly unique in providing a safe place for confidential discussions of highly personal subjects across the full range of life s issues but without any particular affinity. THE CELLULAR CHURCH Before exploring True North Groups it may be useful to look more closely at one kind of upper-tier organization that is growing rapidly megachurches like Rick Warren s Saddleback Church the largest in the United States. In 2005 Malcolm Gladwell author of The Tipping Point wrote a widely read article for The New Yorker called The Cellular Church. In the article he compared small groups in megachurches like Saddleback to cells in a larger organism. Gladwell describes how Warren created a church out of a network of lots of little church cells exclusive tightly knit groups of six or seven who meet in one another s homes during the week to worship and pray. He writes The small group as an instrument of community is initially how Communism spread and in the postwar TRUE NORTH GROUPS 27 years Alcoholics Anonymous and its twelve-step progeny perfected the small-group technique. The small group did not have a designated leader who stood at the front of the room. Members sat in a circle. The focus was on discussion and interaction not one person teaching and
