Patrick Lencioni Quotes

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

After 'Psychonauts,' we could have laid off half our team so that we'd have more money and time to sign 'Brutal Legend.' But doing so would have meant breaking up a team that had just learned how to work well together. And what message would that have sent to our employees? It would say that we're not loyal to them, and that we don't care.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.

No matter the organization, the goal, or the mission, you've got to do it through people. It's been that way for me since my first command. I work to understand the people, their views and needs, and how tasks are being carried out.That interaction might cause me to modify my guidance or the way I delegate. It also affords me an opportunity to learn what goals people have and how as their boss I can facilitate their future in ways that not only help them, but also help the ship or the organization.

If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.

I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.

There's a dance happening on both sides of the table. Individuals are giving their personal and career values a lot more weight when it comes to finding a company that aligns with both. At the same time, companies are becoming a lot more transparent about their core values as an organization and the types of people they want to attract.

As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.

We had a lot of different personalities. Hoak was the straw boss. He just would not quit.

The difficult bosses - the ones that have been hard for me to work for - have been the ones where I never knew what success meant.

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

People want to be a part of an organization that lets them be fully alive and bring their gifts to work. People really do want to be engaged and feel proud of their contribution.

You have to let the team develop. You can't say, 'Oh, I got empty seats, I'm going to change the team.' It just doesn't work that way.

I am happy at Inter and feel like part of the group.

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?