Patrick Lencioni Quotes - Page 2

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• Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

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  Teamwork, Real, Foundation

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• Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.

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  Strong, Team, Simple

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• It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.

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  Children, Leader, Identity

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• There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier - or not - is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.

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  Commitment, Escaping, Organization

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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• When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

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  Decisions You Make, Reason, Should

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• All things to all people is nothing to everyone.

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  People, All Things

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• Choose your companions before you choose your road.

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  Companion, You Choose

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• An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.

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  Organization, Giving, Decision

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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• Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

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  Team, Good Marriage

  Patrick Lencioni (2005). “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.

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  Teamwork, Teammate, Groups

  "Five Warning Signs Your Startup Team Is Going To Kill Each Other" by Martin Zwilling, www.businessinsider.com. January 10, 2011.

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• The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

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  Successful, Organization, Majority

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• Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional.

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  Teamwork, Hurt, Communication

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• Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

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  Mistake, Team, Weakness

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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• Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

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  Organization, People, Healthy

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• A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

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  Inspiring, Leadership, Jobs

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)”, p.94, John Wiley & Sons

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• An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

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  Integrity, Organization, Healthy

  Patrick Lencioni (2012). “The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.

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  Thinking, Marketing, Looks

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• Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).

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  Teamwork, Strong, Simple

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• No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

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  Organization, Healthy, Action

  Patrick Lencioni (2012). “The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business”, p.173, John Wiley & Sons

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• On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

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  Team, People, Difficult

  Patrick Lencioni (2005). “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

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  Leader, Honest, Authority

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• I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.

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  Smart, Successful, Differences

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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• Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

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  Teamwork, Successful, Careers

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• As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

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  Running, Team, Simple

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• The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

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  Real, Payoff, Eternal

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