Patrick Lencioni Quotes

In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

I'm not the most open player; I'm not the biggest clown. I just like going into the dressing room easy.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

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.

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.

The most important thing is that you treat everybody incredibly well and lead with a bit of humility. I've found that when I go into a company to lead, it's important to have a plan and to make that plan a simple one that everybody can understand.

There are over 50 brilliant scientists working at my lab, and being sensitive to their needs is among the top skill sets that scientists like me have to learn.

I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.

There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.

I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

People want to see how we get teams to come together so quickly. They want to see how we get young guys to play so hard and so unselfish. I'm fine with that. I have no problem sharing that.

What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.

It always depends on who you work with. It is not about the budget, not about the countries but about people.

Fitting in with teammates has never been an issue for me. It's always something that came very natural.

Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.

We have to be leaders and sacrifice our own egos and be humble and go in and figure out what their values are, and then speak to those values.