Patrick Lencioni
If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.Collection: Time
Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.Collection: Courage
Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.Collection: Trust
The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.Collection: Best
Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.Collection: Leadership
I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life.Collection: Travel
Conflict is the pursuit of truth.Collection: Truth
Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.Collection: Business
Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.Collection: Design
The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.Collection: Work
What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.Collection: Amazing
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.Collection: Work
Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.Collection: Health
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.Collection: Success
You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions.Collection: Trust
Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.Collection: Success
Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.Collection: Wisdom
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 competition, at any time.Collection: Organization
Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.Collection: Teamwork
When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.Collection: Leadership
If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.Collection: Get Better
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 concerns without fear of reprisal.Collection: Leadership
The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.Collection: Teamwork
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.Collection: Teamwork
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 people to work in the morning with clarity, hope, and anticipation and brings them home at night with a greater sense of accomplishment, contribution, and self-esteem. The impact of this is as important as it is impossible to measure.Collection: Morning
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.Collection: Selfishness
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.Collection: Team
A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.Collection: Team
If everything is important, then nothing is.Collection: Important
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.Collection: Team
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.Collection: Inspirational
People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human.Collection: Fire
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.Collection: Teamwork
A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.Collection: Core Values
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 up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.Collection: Teamwork
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.Collection: Leadership
Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.Collection: Advantage
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.Collection: Thinking
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 to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.Collection: Teamwork
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 career aspirations, their egos.Collection: Team
Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.Collection: Strong
Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).Collection: Teamwork
It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God.Collection: Children
There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier - or not - is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.Collection: Commitment
Choose your companions before you choose your road.Collection: Companion
When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.Collection: Decisions You Make
All things to all people is nothing to everyone.Collection: People
An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.Collection: Organization
Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.Collection: Team
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 the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.Collection: Teamwork