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Patrick M. Lencioni

Дата рождения: 1965 – Bakersfield, California, United States

Patrick M. Lencioni is an American business consultant, author, and speaker renowned for pioneering the organizational health movement. He has written over a dozen best-selling books—most notably The Five Dysfunctions of a Team—that have sold millions of copies worldwide and helped transform leadership, teamwork, and organizational effectiveness across diverse industries.

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Patrick M. Lencioni, born in 1965 in Bakersfield, California, grew up in a tight-knit family where his father worked as a sales representative. Excelling academically and athletically, Lencioni was student body president and valedictorian at Garces Memorial High School before moving on to Claremont McKenna College, where he earned a BA in economics and Spanish. This foundation would lay the groundwork for a career at the crossroads of business analysis and interpersonal dynamics. Early roles at Bain & Company, Oracle, and Sybase—where he rose to vice president of organizational development—sharpened his insights into team performance and organizational culture.

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Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability
-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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If everything is important, then nothing is
-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage
-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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Teamwork is not a virtue. It is a choice
-The Advantage
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Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare
-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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An ideal team player embodies three virtues: humility, hunger and people smarts
-The Ideal Team Player
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When members of a team willingly acknowledge their weaknesses to one another, they give their peers tacit permission to call them on those weaknesses
-The Advantage
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Most organizations have too many top priorities to achieve the level of focus they need to succeed
-The Advantage
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People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human
-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal
-The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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