Patrick Lencioni

The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

— Patrick Lencioni

The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

— Patrick Lencioni

Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.

— Patrick Lencioni

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

— Patrick Lencioni

Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.

— Patrick Lencioni

Choose your companions before you choose your road.

— Patrick Lencioni

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

— Patrick Lencioni

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

— Patrick Lencioni

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

— Patrick Lencioni

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

— Patrick Lencioni

Experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes.

— Patrick Lencioni

If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.

— Patrick Lencioni

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and…

— Patrick Lencioni

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

— Patrick Lencioni

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

— Patrick Lencioni

Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

— Patrick Lencioni

There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier -…

— Patrick Lencioni

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is…

— Patrick Lencioni

You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's…

— Patrick Lencioni

Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but…

— Patrick Lencioni

“And they don’t worry about whether the potential client will take advantage of their generosity; they know that for every client that…

— Patrick Lencioni

Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to…

— Patrick Lencioni

Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time.…

— Patrick Lencioni

Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are…

— Patrick Lencioni

Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

— Patrick Lencioni

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

— Patrick Lencioni

“Great organizations, unlike countries, are never run like a democracy.”

— Patrick Lencioni

If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to…

— Patrick Lencioni

Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when…

— Patrick Lencioni

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important…

— Patrick Lencioni

If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that…

— Patrick Lencioni

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

— Patrick Lencioni

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's…

— Patrick Lencioni

“a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And”

— Patrick Lencioni

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best…

— Patrick Lencioni

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

— Patrick Lencioni

“Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort,”

— Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead…

— Patrick Lencioni

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you…

— Patrick Lencioni

“Take a bullet for the client. Make everything about the client. Honor the client’s work. Do the dirty work.”

— Patrick Lencioni