Patrick Lencioni Quotes

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• Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.
• Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward…
• 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…
• 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…
• Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).
• The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.
• Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
• Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
• 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…
• Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
• 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…
• Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open…
• If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any…
• The impact of organizational health goes far beyond the walls of a company, extending to customers and vendors, even to spouses and children. It sends…
• 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.
• If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.
• Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.
• Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
• A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.
• When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

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