Patrick Lencioni
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 to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional.Collection: Teamwork
Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.Collection: Mistake
Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.Collection: Organization
A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Integrity
Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.Collection: Thinking
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 such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).Collection: Teamwork
No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meetingCollection: Organization
On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.Collection: Team
Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.Collection: Leader
I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.Collection: Smart
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 people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.Collection: Teamwork
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 staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.Collection: Running
The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.Collection: Real
Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.Collection: Team
Experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes.Collection: Teamwork
If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.Collection: Organization
. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.Collection: Needs