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The Advantage
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The Advantage

Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

Patrick Lencioni
Jossey-Bass, 2012

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6

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Recommendation

Management consultant and author Patrick Lencioni, known for his popular business fables, steps into straight exposition to explain how to handle complex business problems by building organizational health and relying on common-sense solutions. Yet few organizations practice what Lencioni preaches. Companies generally focus on traditional business areas rather than digging into the nitty-gritty of developing what Lencioni calls a “healthy organization.” He offers a step-by-step prescription – based on familiar nostrums – for improving corporate health. getAbstract recommends his casual, basic and accessible advice to new business leaders who want to build an effective organizational framework.

Take-Aways

  • Healthy businesses operate with “minimal politics and confusion,” plus “high degrees of morale and productivity, and very low turnover.”
  • A healthy organization needs a “cohesive leadership team” to foster and nourish clarity.
  • Leadership teamwork creates mutual trust, resolves disputes, owns its mistakes, generates high functionality, and focuses on results and corporate well-being.

About the Author

Patrick Lencioni, best-selling author of Death by Meeting, Getting Naked and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, is president of The Table Group consultancy.

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    J. M. 5 months ago
    Good
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    P. R. 7 years ago
    This is a great book! I found it to be an alternative, yet complimentary, approach to implementing one Jim Collins greatest books (yet not week know) titled Beyond Entrepreneurship.
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    M. H. 9 years ago
    This book I can advice. It guides you through some basics for a healthy working environment