The Advantage – Patrick Lencioni
Many companies search for competitive advantage in strategy, marketing, finance or technology. But according to bestselling author and consultant Patrick Lencioni, the single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health, and it is largely ignored. In The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business, he explains why.
Lencioni defines a healthy organization as one with minimal politics and confusion, high morale and productivity, and low turnover among good employees. Such organizations make better use of their talent and knowledge, and are able to execute their strategies more effectively than their rivals. Yet many leaders overlook health, he argues, because it seems too simple, too soft or too difficult to measure.
Drawing on ideas from his earlier books, including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni presents a model based on four disciplines. The first is to build a cohesive leadership team. The second is to create clarity, answering six critical questions about why the organization exists, how it behaves, what it does, how it will succeed, what is most important right now and who must do what. The third is to overcommunicate that clarity. The fourth is to reinforce clarity through human systems such as hiring, performance management and meetings.
Practical tools, examples from his consulting work and advice on running effective meetings make the ideas easy to apply.
Clear and actionable, The Advantage is a valuable read for executives, managers, team leaders and business owners who want to build healthier, more effective organizations.
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