Book Titles

The Advantage
Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

By Patrick Lencioni

Year Published: 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-94152-2
Categories: Health, Leadership, Purpose

100 Quotes Found

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The Advantage:

When it comes to reinforcing clarity, there is no such thing as too much communication.

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The Advantage:

Every policy, every program, every activity should be designed to remind employees what is really most important.

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The Advantage:

…cohesive leadership teams prevent groupthink, learn from mistakes, and call each other on potential problems before they get out of hand.

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The Advantage:

A real team is more like a basketball team, one that plays together simultaneously, in an interactive, mutually dependent, and often interchangeable way.

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The Advantage:

Becoming a real team requires an intentional decision on the part of its members.

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The Advantage:

…teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice – and a strategic one.

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The Advantage:

When leaders preach teamwork but exclusively reward individual achievement, they are confusing their people and creating an obstacle to true team behavior.

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The Advantage:

At the heart of vulnerability lies the willingness of people to abandon their pride and their fear, to sacrifice their egos for the collective good of the team.

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The Advantage:

…team members begin the process of getting comfortable with vulnerability when they realize that it is okay, even gratifying, to tell their peer something about themselves…

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The Advantage:

When members of a leadership team willingly acknowledge their weaknesses to one another, they give their peers tacit permission to call them on those weaknesses.

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