Patrick Lencioni Quotes about Team

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

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

Patrick Lencioni

Team, Goal, Important

Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable”, p.183, John Wiley & Sons

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

Patrick Lencioni

Team, Mistake, Issues

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.

Patrick Lencioni

Team, Organization, Firsts

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

Patrick Lencioni

Strong, Team, Simple

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

Patrick Lencioni

Mistake, Team, Weakness

Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

The team you belong to must come ahead of the team you lead: this is putting team results (e.g., organizational needs) ahead of individual agendas (e.g., the team or division you lead, your ego, your need for recognition, your career development, etc.) Confidentiality is respected downward more than it is respected upward. Organizational alignment is a direct result of this hierarchy (if it were the other way around, organizational alignment would be very difficult to achieve).

Patrick Lencioni

Team, Careers, Ego

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

Patrick Lencioni

Team, Good Marriage

Patrick Lencioni (2005). “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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

Team, Careers, Focus

"Get Rid of Dysfunction". www.success.com. June 7, 2009.

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

Patrick Lencioni

Team, People, Difficult

Patrick Lencioni (2005). “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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.

Patrick Lencioni

Running, Team, Simple

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

Patrick Lencioni

Team, Overcoming, Groups

Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons