Patrick Lencioni Quotes

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

I start every day reviewing priorities, prepping for meetings, and getting updated on key projects.

Really great people rarely leave a healthy organization.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.

A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.

Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.

One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.

An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

Develop a clear vision for your organization. Where do you want to be in five years?

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

The soul of dispatch is decision.

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation