Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success. "

Patrick Lencioni

Related Quotes:

" 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

" 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. "

Patrick Lencioni

" The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions. "

Patrick Lencioni

" 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

" Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course. "

Patrick Lencioni

" I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team. "

Patrick Lencioni

Working Together

" If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. "

Patrick Lencioni

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Patrick Lencioni

" I hate touchy-feely things. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Home is most important in the long run. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible. "

Patrick Lencioni

" What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence. "

Patrick Lencioni

" 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

" I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers. "

Patrick Lencioni

" The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits. "

Patrick Lencioni

" 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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Patrick Lencioni

" 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

" 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. "

Patrick Lencioni

" 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. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have. "

Patrick Lencioni