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Patrick Lencioni is an American writer recognized for his business books that concentrate on leadership and organizational effectiveness. Born in 1965, he has penned several best-selling titles that have been translated into numerous languages.

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“The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).”

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

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.”

Needs Problem

Book:The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery

Source: The Truth About Employee Engagement: A Fable About Addressing the Three Root Causes of Job Misery

“Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.”

“As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.”

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