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Patrick Lencioni (born c. 1965) is an American writer of books on business management, particularly in relation to team management. He is best known as the author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a popular business fable that explores work team dynamics and offers solutions to help teams perform better.

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

Complete, Good, Good Marriage, Like, Maintained, Team

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.

Aspirations, Careers, Focus, Good, Team

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.

Effective, Focus, Healthy, Organization, Per

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.

Running, Team, Simple, Run, Build, Member

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.

Team, Organization, Firsts, Chance, Critical

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.

Decisions, Decisions You Make, Effect, Know, Reason, Should

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.

Get Better, Ifs, Interested, Leading, Not Interested, Stop

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

Difficult, Remarkably, Simple, Strong, Team

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

Leader, Honest, Authority, Leaders, Engage

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.

Careers, Course, Good, Invulnerability, Successful, Teamwork

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

Fire, Human, Leader, People, True, Walk

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

Goal, Group, Important, Results, Team

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Important, Ifs, Everything, Nothing

Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

Advantage, Organizational, Competitive Advantage, Single, Greatest

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

Leadership, Jobs, Good Job, Probably, Impression, Good

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.

Teamwork, Hurt, Communication, Intentional, Fixing, Frank

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.

Competition, Industry, Organization, People

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.

Accept, Opportunity, Questions, Responsibility, Teams, Teamwork

An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.

Chance, Company, Decision, Giving, Intentional, Organization

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

Team, People, Difficult, Vulnerability

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