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If everything is important, then nothing is.

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Patrick Lencioni
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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Patrick M. Lencioni
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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.
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Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete it must be maintained over time.
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Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
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On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.
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When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
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The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.
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Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
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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.
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The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.
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