Patrick Lencioni Quotes

Having a team that I trust is, for me, really important.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

And a pick and roll in the women's game is a pick and roll on the men's game... I mean, character, working for each other - trusting your teammates. That stuff, that's universal.

Some people get on better with some than others but what is absolutely crucial is that everyone knows their roles and responsibilities and trust that your team-mate is going to do their best for the team.

In every team there are going to be moments of vulnerability.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

And trust. It takes a long time to trust someone. You work with people, anybody you dont know, it takes about a films length to get to know each other. Then if you move on, you have to start right back at the beginning. But if you carry on together and try doing different things, you can all grow together.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

If you set up an atmosphere of community and trust, it becomes a tradition. Older team members will establish your credibility with newer ones. Even if they don't like everything about you, they'll say, 'He's trustworthy, committed to us as a team.'

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

You're going to have injuries, danger and glory in every sport. What makes football unique is that every person on that team needs to count on everybody else. It's the ultimate team game and you have to depend on your coaches, you have to depend on your support staff, you have to depend on your teammates.

No coach is more important than the Team

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.