Patrick Lencioni

Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn’t be.

Patrick Lencioni

Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them.

Patrick Lencioni

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting.

Patrick Lencioni

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn’t my fault.

Patrick Lencioni

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

Patrick Lencioni

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

Patrick Lencioni

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

Patrick Lencioni

Take a bullet for the client. Make everything about the client. Honor the client’s work. Do the dirty work.

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.

Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork is a strategic decision.

Patrick Lencioni