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Patrick Lencioni

(1965) Writer United States

194 quotes in 574 categories

Patrick Lencioni says organizations have plenty of knowledge but often miss health. He points out that trust is the real foundation of teamwork, not just feelings. He also notes that meetings that leave people uncomfortable signal a need to dig deeper into important issues.

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Patrick Lencioni is a writer from the United States, best known for Las cinco disfunciones de un equipo.

Quick Facts About Patrick Lencioni

Born: January 1, 1965
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Las cinco disfunciones de un equipo

About Patrick Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni writes books on business management, especially how teams work together. His most popular title, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, is a business fable that explains common problems in groups and offers ways to improve performance. He also applied his ideas to families in The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family.

Quotes by Patrick Lencioni

“ALWAYS CONSULT INSTEAD OF SELL”

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“Tell the kind truth.”

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“ADMIT YOUR WEAKNESSES AND LIMITATIONS”

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Home is most important in the long run.

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Home

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“Ask dumb questions.”

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“Ripping the Band-Aid off quickly” is”

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“Every great movie has conflict.”

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Conflict

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“Make dumb suggestions.”

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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

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Design

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

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Bounds

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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.

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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

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“Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.”

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Counterintuitive

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People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human.

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Fire

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All things to all people is nothing to everyone.

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The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

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If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any…

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Competition

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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

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Business

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The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.

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Competitive advantage

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“What clients want more than anything is to know that we’re more interested in helping them than we are in maintaining our…

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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

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Career

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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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Good marriage

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

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Action

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“It’s all about standing there naked in front of the client. It’s about building trust. And in the end, that means the…

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Building trust

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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…

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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more…

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“Our ability to engage in passionate, unfiltered debate about what we need to do to succeed will determine our future as much…

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Debate

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God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the…

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“avoid, as much as possible, telling clients what they would do if they were to be hired; instead, they just start serving…

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A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor…

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I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments,…

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When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when…

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Consensus

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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…

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“First, we go figure out how to recognize a real team player, the kind of person who can easily build trust, engage…

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Football

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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…

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“Therefore, it is key that leaders demonstrate restraint when their people engage in conflict, and allow resolution to occur naturally, as messy…

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Leader

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“I am going to be pretty intolerant of behavior that demonstrates an absence of trust, or a focus on individual ego. I…

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Bad behavior

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“Almost all of the time and energy in Half Moon Bay was being directed toward consulting to paying clients. Those clients in…

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Customer

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“In consulting, entering the danger comes into play in those moments when you’re in a meeting and someone says something that is…

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“Listen, this is just an unpleasant part of our job sometimes. Those executives know that I took a bullet for them. I’ll…

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Executives

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Patrick Lencioni by topic

Teamwork (43) Team (38) Trust (25) Leadership (25) Time (19) People (18) Leader (14) Team Members (13) Organization (13) Football (13) Business (13) Conflict (12) War (11)