Quotes of Patrick Lencioni

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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.” ― Patrick Lencioni, livro the five dysfunctions of a team patrick lencioni 2002
“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” ― Patrick Lencioni, livro the five dysfunctions of a team patrick lencioni 2002
“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, livro the five dysfunctions of a team patrick lencioni 2002
“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, livro the five dysfunctions of a team patrick lencioni 2002
“If everything is important, then nothing is.” ― Patrick M. Lencioni
“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, livro the five dysfunctions of a team patrick lencioni 2002
“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 Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“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, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
“Some people are hard to hold accountable because they are so helpful. Others because they get defensive. Others because they are intimidating. I don’t think it’s easy to hold anyone accountable, not even your own kids” ― Patrick Lencioni, livro the five dysfunctions of a team patrick lencioni 2002
“If people don’t weigh in, they can’t buy in.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
“The only way for the leader of a team to create a safe environment for his team members to be vulnerable is by stepping up and doing something that feels unsafe and uncomfortable first. By getting naked before anyone else, by taking the risk of making himself vulnerable with no guarantee that other members of the team will respond in kind, a leader demonstrates an extraordinary level of selflessness and dedication to the team. And that gives him the right, and the confidence, to ask others to do the same.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
“A team that is not focused on results ... • Stagnates/fails to grow • Rarely defeats competitors • Loses achievement-oriented employees” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
“A fractured team is just like a broken arm or leg; fixing it is always painful, and sometimes you have to rebreak it to make it heal correctly. And the rebreak hurts a lot more than the initial break, because you have to do it on purpose P.37” ― Patrick Lencioni, livro the five dysfunctions of a team patrick lencioni 2002
“If we don’t trust one another, then we aren’t going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
“. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers
“the fear of conflict is almost always a sign of problems.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
“the fundamental attribution error is the tendency of human beings to attribute the negative or frustrating behaviors of their colleagues to their intentions and personalities, while attributing their own negative or frustrating behaviors to environmental factors.” ― Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
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Patrick Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni is a New York Times best-selling author, speaker, consultant and founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to helping organizations become healthy. Lencioni’s ideas around leadership, teamwork and employee engagement have imp…

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