Biography

Patrick Lencioni is the pioneer of the organizational health movement and one of the world’s foremost experts on leadership and teamwork. As an author, speaker, consultant and CEO of the Table Group, Pat has spent the last 20 years shaping the organizational health movement by helping leaders develop cohesive teams and engaged employees.

With his signature mix of inspiration, humor, storytelling, and no-nonsense practicality, Pat has spoken to millions of leaders at national and global conferences and is consistently the top-rated keynote speaker at major events. Whether he’s addressing Fortune 500 companies, professional sports organizations, government agencies, non-profits, schools, or churches, Pat’s down-to-earth nature and insightful concepts will surely resonate.

The world’s foremost expert on organizational health and teamwork, Patrick’s books have sold more than six million copies, and his work has been featured in Fortune, USA TODAY, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review, to name a few.

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The Untapped Advantage

Addressing the model in his book, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, Pat makes the overwhelming case that organizational health "will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage." Drawing on his work consulting to some of the world’s leading teams and reaffirming many of the themes cultivated in his other best sellers, Pat reveals the four steps to achieving the ultimate competitive advantage.

The Truth About Employee Engagement

Pat addresses perhaps the most timeless and elusive topic related to work: job misery. He dismantles the root causes of frustration and anguish at work and provides managers with actionable advice on how to bring meaning and fulfillment to any job in any industry.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

According to Pat Lencioni, teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage. He makes the point that if you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time. Lencioni uncovers the natural human tendencies that derail teams and lead to politics and confusion in so many organizations.

The Ideal Team Player

Lencioni turns his attention to the individual team-member, revealing the three indispensable virtues—humility, hunger and people smarts—that make some people better team players than others. Pat explores the power this combination yields, and illustrates how team members with these traits drastically accelerate the process of building high-performing teams.

Booksby Patrick Lencioni

The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family

The Five Temptations of a CEO

Silos, Politics and Turf Wars

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide

Death by Meeting

Getting Naked

The Truth About Employee Engagemen

The Ideal Team Player

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

The Advantage

The Motive

The 6 Types of Working Genius

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