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If everything is important, then nothing is.
— Patrick Lencioni
A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.
— Patrick Lencioni
Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.
— Patrick Lencioni
A leadership team is a small group of people who are collectively responsible for achieving a common objective for their organization.
— Patrick Lencioni
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.
— Patrick Lencioni
Personal growth might not be so bad after all, I decided.
— Patrick Lencioni
Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
— Patrick Lencioni
the fear of conflict is almost always a sign of problems.
— Patrick Lencioni
management is an everyday thing. Strategy and financial reporting and planning are not.
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few groups of leaders actually work like a team, at least not the kind that is required to lead a healthy organization.
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Damn it. I had to respect Michael Casey. I had really hoped that I could keep loathing him.
— Patrick Lencioni
If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in.
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The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring
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Ken always says that his job is to create the best team possible, not to shepherd the careers of individual athletes.
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When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
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a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And
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No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault.
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When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.
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the best way to ensure that a message gets communicated throughout an organization is to spread rumors about it.
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Humble Only: The Pawn
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last frontier of competitive advantage will be the transformation of unhealthy organizations into healthy ones,
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organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones.
— Patrick Lencioni
Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
— Patrick Lencioni
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
— Patrick Lencioni
Conflict is about issues and ideas, while accountability is about performance and behavior.
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teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice - and a strategic one.
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The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There
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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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Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them.
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Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort,
— Patrick Lencioni
Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.
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It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.
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It was astounding how much more comfortable I felt just being honest. So I kept going.
— Patrick Lencioni
No quality or characteristic is more important than trust
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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 revenue source.
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Moments of truth are best handled face-to-face P.30
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His biggest problem was his need for a problem.
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Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.
— Patrick Lencioni
conflict is productive
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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.
— Patrick Lencioni
Building a team is hard
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A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.
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Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
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People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human.
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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.
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Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
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All things to all people is nothing to everyone.
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Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).
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there is no such thing as too much communication.
— Patrick Lencioni
To achieve results. This is the only true measure of a team P.42
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Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.
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Most organizations I've worked with have too many top priorities to achieve the level of focus they need to succeed.
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humble self- confidence.
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Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in
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Ripping the Band-Aid off quickly" is
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All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This
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Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.
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implementation science is more important than decision science.
— Patrick Lencioni
Stop making the perfect enemy of the good.
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ADMIT YOUR WEAKNESSES AND LIMITATIONS
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A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.
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The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity.
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It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.
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I don't think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it's not a little uncomfortable, then it's not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway
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trust is not the same as assuming everyone is on the same page as you, and that they don't need to be pushed.
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Take a bullet for the client. Make everything about the client. Honor the client's work. Do the dirty work.
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Naked service providers don't enjoy being wrong; they just realize that it is an inevitability. And
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No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting
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Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.
— Patrick Lencioni
If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict.
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I believe in the old saying that if you can't measure something, you can't improve it.
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People who don't like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it's theoretically necessary
— Patrick Lencioni
Hungry Only: The Bulldozer
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they make it clear that their focus is on understanding, honoring, and supporting the business of the client. As
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Choose your companions before you choose your road.
— Patrick Lencioni
The enemy of accountability is ambiguity
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Ego is the ultimate killer on a team
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The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.
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Trust is just one of five behaviors that cohesive teams must establish to build a healthy organization.
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Most people are generally reasonable and can rally around an idea that wasn't their own as long as they know they've had a chance to weigh in.
— Patrick Lencioni
Jim's departures were always uncomfortable.
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