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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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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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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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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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Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

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Organization, People, Healthy

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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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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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The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

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Team, Careers, Ego

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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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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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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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Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

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Thinking, People, Want

Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons

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As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

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Leadership, Jobs, Good Job

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Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

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Team, Careers, Focus

"Get Rid of Dysfunction". www.success.com. June 7, 2009.

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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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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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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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All things to all people is nothing to everyone.

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People, All Things

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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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The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

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Real, Payoff, Eternal

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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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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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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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