Patrick Lencioni Quotes

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

Obviously every team is different, and you don't want to try and be them.

Good teams have more fun. Bad teams have more characters.

A good team needs time to play together.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

I don't care how good you are, teams can be put under pressure.

Selecting a strong team without giving the new captain appropriate time isn't possible.

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

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.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

I've seen really, really talented teams that don't care about each other and are average, maybe above average is about as good as you're going to get.

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

Every team I've played on has players-only meetings, players staff meetings, so this is part of the process.

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.

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.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.