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Team Quotes by Patrick Lencioni
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.
- Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their…
- Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
More Team Quotes
- The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win… — Unknown Author
- To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard,… — Vince Lombardi
- I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered… — Keith Millard
- There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and… — Bryan Adams
- As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more… — Jeff Bridges
- Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and… — Peter Bondra
- A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think… — K. C. Jones
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale