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

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Patrick Lencioni
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
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Patrick M. Lencioni
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Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.
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Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.
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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.
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Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.
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If everything is important, then nothing is.
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The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.
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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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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.
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When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.
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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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. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.
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A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.
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Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
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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.
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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.
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Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.
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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.
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Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.
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All things to all people is nothing to everyone.
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The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.
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