Patrick Lencioni Quotes

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

Innovation at large companies is hard, but it doesn't have to be.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago?

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

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.

When you are in a big team, there's time when you can stay out.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

If you don't have a cohesive team, you won't have good results.

Not everything, always, is about your performance. It's about the team performance. When the team is not playing well, then normally, you will not play well. It's all about the team.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.

When the team's not playing well offensively, it's always a problem for me because I'm not an individualistic player.

I really love being a part of the creative process. I love having an opinion that gets heard, and then it's all up for discussion.

Basically, we're just a bunch of kids who got together and try to use what we have and try to learn from each other.

The more better players we have at Barcelona, the better it is for the team and coach.

The FCC should facilitate, rather than frustrate, innovation.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."