patrick-lencioni Quotes About team

“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).”

“Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.”

Humans Groups Team Overcoming Tendencies

Book:The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable

“On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.”

People Difficult Team Vulnerability

Book:Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

Source: Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

“Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.”

Team Good Marriage

Book:Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

Source: Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

“A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.”

Important Individual Goal Results Groups Team Members Collectives

Book:The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable

“Experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes.”

Long Process Team Exercise Tools Fundamentals Valuable Teamwork Relevant

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“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.”

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

“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

“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.”

“Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.”

Important Energy Mistake Issues Focus Risk Team Conflict Members Weakness Collaboration Offering Assistance Feedback Consensus Time And Energy Important Issues

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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.”

Looks Opportunity Responsibility Accepting Groups Team Skills Members Areas Appreciate Meetings Teamwork Input

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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.”

Reason Used Groups Team Members Intention Careful Vulnerable Vulnerability No Reason Teamwork Peers Teammate Protective Team Member

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“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.”

“Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.”

Ifs Firsts Chance Steps Team Building Organization Critical Team Building

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

Powerful Technology Team Building Advantage Ultimate Remains Strategy Finance Teamwork Team Building Competitive Advantage

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

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

“Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in such comprehensive and invasive ways that it's virtually impossible to isolate it as a single variable) and because it is extremely hard to achieve (it requires levels of courage and discipline that few executives possess) - ironically, building a strong team is very simple (it doesn't require masterful insights or tactics).”

“Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.”

Strong Difficult Simple Team Building Team Building

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“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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“Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.”

Ifs Firsts Real Facts Sound Team Building Members Let Me Foundation Critical Teamwork Dysfunction Building A Team Team Member Touchy

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

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

“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.”

Sometimes Hurt Break Team Communication Painful Bones Heal Teamwork Collaboration Frank Fixing

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“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.”

Attention Careers Focus Team Members Ego Focused Budgets Aspiration Department Collectives Team Member Collective Good

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.”

Mistake Impossible Team Members Weakness Foundation Team Member

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

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

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