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Zusatztext 'Something in it for everyone...a lot of value in it' (Alan Jordon! Sales Director of Bookbuzz) Informationen zum Autor Patrick M. Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a management consulting firm specializing in organizational health and executive team development. As a consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with thousands of senior executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to start-ups and nonprofits. Lencioni is the author of 11 best-selling books including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Ideal Team Player. To learn more about Patrick, and the products and services offered by his firm, The Table Group, please visit www.tablegroup.com. Klappentext Praise for The Advantage "The Advantage has more common sense in its 200 pages than I have ever found in a business book. A must-read." -Colleen Barrett, president emeritus, Southwest Airlines Co.; coauthor, Lead with LUV "Here is the next business classic. Even the best leaders will read this and wonder, 'Why aren't we already doing this?'" -Enrique Salem, president and CEO, Symantec "For more than a decade I've been using Lencioni's approach to run the departments I lead, and it has never failed me." -Rick Friedel, vice president, AT&T Service Management "Our teams and leaders have really embraced Lencioni's methodology. We've put these ideas into practice and we're experiencing the results that prove it works." -David Gordon, COO, The Cheesecake Factory "In The Advantage, Lencioni cuts through the corporate 'bull' that creates a culture of stonewalling and feet-dragging, and shows leaders at every level how to build up a culture of productivity and communication." -Dave Ramsey, New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host Zusammenfassung Tagline: Patrick Lencioni's first full-length nonfiction book. This book brings together all of the themes of Patrick Lencioni's other bestselling books into a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of organizational health - what it means for an organization to be "healthy", why it's critical for success, and how to get there. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction xv The case for organizational health 1 The four Disciplines model 15 Discipline 1: Build a Cohesive Leadership Team 19 Discipline 2: Create Clarity 73 Discipline 3: Overcommunicate Clarity 141 Discipline 4: Reinforce Clarity 153 The Centrality of Great Meetings 173 Seizing the Advantage 189 Checklist for Organizational Health 195 More Resources 199 Notes 201 Acknowledgments 203 About the Author 205 Index 207 ...
List of contents
Introduction xv
The Case for Organizational Health 1
The Four Disciplines Model 15
Discipline 1: Build a Cohesive Leadership Team 19
Discipline 2: Create Clarity 73
Discipline 3: Overcommunicate Clarity 141
Discipline 4: Reinforce Clarity 153
The Centrality of Great Meetings 173
Seizing the Advantage 189
Checklist for Organizational Health 195
More Resources 199
Notes 201
Acknowledgments 203
About the Author 205
Index 207
Report
Consulting executive Lencioni (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team) has an answer for floundering businesses--aim for organizational health. In other words, businesses that are whole, consistent, and complete, with complementary management, operations, strategy, and culture. Today, the vast majority of organizations have more than enough intelligence, experience, and knowledge to be successful. Organizational health is neither sexy nor quantifiable, which is why more people don't take advantage. However, improved health will not only create a competitive advantage and better bottom line, it will boost morale. Lencioni covers four steps to health: build a cohesive leadership team, create clarity, overcommunicate clarity, and reinforce clarity. Through examples of his own experiences and others', he addresses the behaviors of a cohesive team, peer-to-peer accountability, office politics and bureaucracy and strategy, and how all organizations should strive to make people's lives better. This smart, pithy, and practical guide is a must-read for executives and other businesspeople who need to get their proverbial ducks back in a row. (Apr.) (Publishers Weekly, 1/16/12)
