Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Patrick Lencioni
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Writer
Patrick M. Lencioni
Competition
Market
Organization
Industry
Time
People
Rowing
Dominate
Direction

More quotes by Patrick Lencioni

Image
A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
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
Image
Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting
Patrick Lencioni
Image
The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
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
Image
All things to all people is nothing to everyone.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
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
Image
. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.
Patrick Lencioni
Image
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
Image
A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.
Patrick Lencioni