Patrick Lencioni Quotes

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

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.

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

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I believe you can work with anybody.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.

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

No team works out teamwork.

A team is a team.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

If we can’t agree on the facts, how can we agree on the solutions?

We're always working on our communication, which is something that's important. Instead of going through managers to discuss things, we will sit down and have meetings about things. That's a process. And you have to be able to be honest with each other as much as you can.

It was a stroke of luck that there were about four to six leaders in power in the mid-'80s who really trusted one another and could really make things happen.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.

Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.

I'm a teamworker.

I've never really been too fussed about the kind of teammate I have.