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" Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's. "
Patrick Lencioni
My Life
Questions
People
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" Home is most important in the long run. "
Patrick Lencioni
Most
Important
Home
" I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier. "
Patrick Lencioni
Time
Team
Process
" The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well. "
Patrick Lencioni
Great
Try
Leader
" The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart. "
Patrick Lencioni
Strong
Smart
Ego
" When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer. "
Patrick Lencioni
Best
Trust
Truth
" People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life. "
Patrick Lencioni
Life
Place
People
" On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team. "
Patrick Lencioni
Confidence
Courage
Great
" What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills. "
Patrick Lencioni
Humble
Teamwork
People
" Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts. "
Patrick Lencioni
Strong
Competition
Employees
" I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission. "
Patrick Lencioni
Health
Team
Politics
" Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests. "
Patrick Lencioni
Team
People
Sacrifice
" If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt. "
Patrick Lencioni
Ignore
Person
You
" Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success. "
Patrick Lencioni
Years
Success
Accept
" For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts. "
Patrick Lencioni
People
Reality
Humility
" Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way. "
Patrick Lencioni
Life
Feeling
Small
" There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder. "
Patrick Lencioni
Leader
School
Good
" Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help. "
Patrick Lencioni
Mistakes
Leadership
Teamwork
" Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost. "
Patrick Lencioni
Up
Speed
New
" A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor use of people's time. Those meetings can be easily dispensed with and can be an email instead that people read in their own time. "
Patrick Lencioni
Information
People
Purpose
" When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. "
Patrick Lencioni
Truth
Ego
Lost
" Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team. "
Patrick Lencioni
See
Great
Team
" Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible. "
Patrick Lencioni
Trust
Innovation
Conflict
" At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension. "
Patrick Lencioni
Heart
Great
Conflict
" If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble. "
Patrick Lencioni
Know
You
Situation
" I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad. "
Patrick Lencioni
Themselves
Were
Meetings
" Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning. "
Patrick Lencioni
You
Time
Run
" I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions. "
Patrick Lencioni
Seen
Leaders
Best
" Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company. "
Patrick Lencioni
Courage
Company
Discipline
" Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization. "
Patrick Lencioni
Goal
Organization
Conflict
" Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made. "
Patrick Lencioni
Great
Important
Personal