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" Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results. "
Patrick Lencioni
Results
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" Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it. "
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" 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. "
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" If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one. "
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" Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other. "
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" Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that. "
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" 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. "
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" I hate touchy-feely things. "
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" 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. "
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" You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions. "
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" At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension. "
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" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "
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" At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive. "
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" Home is most important in the long run. "
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" I'm kind of a reluctant guru. "
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" You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others. "
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" 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. "
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" Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another. "
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" I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad. "
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" 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. "
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" If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth. "
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" God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves. "
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" Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility. "
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" When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth. "
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" 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. "
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" Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job. "
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" 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. "
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" I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United. "
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