Patrick Lencioni Quotes

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

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

You will succeed only if you first build trust. It's like wolves. They show each other their necks and don't bite.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

The more you are together as a team, the better you become.

I want to take people out of their comfort zones and teach them to rely on their team-mates.

A strong working relationship requires every participant to be on the same page.

A good team needs time to play together.

Teams are a collective expression.

Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

Teamwork is a strategic decision.

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.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

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.

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

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

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

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.