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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. — Patrick Lencioni

few groups of leaders actually work like a team, at least not the kind that is required to lead a healthy organization. — Patrick Lencioni

Damn it. I had to respect Michael Casey. I had really hoped that I could keep loathing him. — Patrick Lencioni

We've learned over the years that having a bad client is worse than having none. — Patrick Lencioni

If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in. — Patrick Lencioni

The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring — Patrick Lencioni

Ken always says that his job is to create the best team possible, not to shepherd the careers of individual athletes. — Patrick Lencioni

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

a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And — Patrick Lencioni

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault. — Patrick Lencioni

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make. — Patrick Lencioni

the best way to ensure that a message gets communicated throughout an organization is to spread rumors about it. — Patrick Lencioni

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

Humble Only: The Pawn — Patrick Lencioni

last frontier of competitive advantage will be the transformation of unhealthy organizations into healthy ones, — Patrick Lencioni

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. — Patrick Lencioni

teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice - and a strategic one. — Patrick Lencioni

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

Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There — Patrick Lencioni

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

Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them. — Patrick Lencioni

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. — Patrick Lencioni

It is dangerous if our identity as a leader becomes more important than our identity as a child of God. — Patrick Lencioni

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people. — Patrick Lencioni

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 — Patrick Lencioni

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. — Patrick Lencioni

Moments of truth are best handled face-to-face P.30 — Patrick Lencioni

His biggest problem was his need for a problem. — Patrick Lencioni

Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. — Patrick Lencioni

conflict is productive — Patrick 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

Building a team is hard — Patrick Lencioni

if we weren't willing to tell a client the kind truth, why should they pay us? — Patrick Lencioni

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals. — Patrick Lencioni

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

People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human. — Patrick Lencioni

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

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

All things to all people is nothing to everyone. — Patrick Lencioni

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

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 — Patrick Lencioni

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

Most organizations I've worked with have too many top priorities to achieve the level of focus they need to succeed. — Patrick Lencioni

humble self- confidence. — Patrick Lencioni

Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in — Patrick Lencioni

Ripping the Band-Aid off quickly" is — Patrick Lencioni

All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. This — Patrick Lencioni

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

implementation science is more important than decision science. — Patrick Lencioni

Stop making the perfect enemy of the good. — Patrick Lencioni

ADMIT YOUR WEAKNESSES AND LIMITATIONS — Patrick Lencioni

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

An organization has to institutionalize its culture without bureaucratizing it. — Patrick Lencioni

The hard truth is, bad meetings almost always lead to bad decisions, which is the best recipe for mediocrity. — Patrick Lencioni

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

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 — Patrick Lencioni

trust is not the same as assuming everyone is on the same page as you, and that they don't need to be pushed. — Patrick Lencioni

Take a bullet for the client. Make everything about the client. Honor the client's work. Do the dirty work. — Patrick Lencioni

Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success — Patrick Lencioni

Naked service providers don't enjoy being wrong; they just realize that it is an inevitability. And — Patrick Lencioni

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting — Patrick Lencioni

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. — Patrick Lencioni

I believe in the old saying that if you can't measure something, you can't improve it. — Patrick Lencioni

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 — Patrick Lencioni

they make it clear that their focus is on understanding, honoring, and supporting the business of the client. As — Patrick Lencioni

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

The enemy of accountability is ambiguity — Patrick Lencioni

Ego is the ultimate killer on a team — Patrick Lencioni

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

Trust is just one of five behaviors that cohesive teams must establish to build a healthy organization. — Patrick Lencioni

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. — Patrick Lencioni