Patrick Lencioni famous quotes

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Knowing #Doe

Choose your companions before you choose your road.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Companion #You Choose

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Get Better #Not Interested

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Organization #People #Competition

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Morning #Children #Wall

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Selfishness #Failing

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Mistake #Team #Offering

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Jobs #Measurement #Miserable

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Persistence #Common Sense #Discipline

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).
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Strong #Simple

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Strong #Team #Simple

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

#Teamwork #Powerful #Technology

If everything is important, then nothing is.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Important

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Inspirational #Motivational #Inspiring

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Smart #Successful #Differences

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Leadership #Teamwork #Mistake

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Team #Organization #Firsts

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

#Thinking #People #Want

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Organization #Giving #Decision

A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Core Values #Willing #Values

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Organization #People #Healthy

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Successful #Careers

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. Teammates are vulnerable with one another; they are confident that their respective vulnerabilities will not be used against them.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Peers #Teammate

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

#Leadership #Jobs #Good Job

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Running #Team #Simple

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Mistake #Team #Weakness

The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Real #Payoff

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Simple #People

. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Needs #Problem

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Real #Dysfunction

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Team #Careers #Focus

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Hurt #Communication

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Leadership #Answers #Conflict

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Responsibility #Opportunity

Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Advantage #Organizational #Competitive Advantage

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Real #Foundation

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.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Integrity #Organization #Healthy

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.
-- Patrick Lencioni

#Teamwork #Keys #Ingredients