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The Advantage

Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
Book • 2012
In 'The Advantage', Patrick Lencioni makes a compelling case that the key to a company's success lies in its organizational health rather than its intelligence or technological prowess.

He argues that healthy organizations, characterized by a cohesive leadership team, clear strategy, effective communication, and a unified culture, outperform their counterparts.

Lencioni identifies three biases (the Sophistication Bias, the Adrenaline Bias, and the Quantification Bias) that prevent leaders from focusing on organizational health.

The book provides a practical model for achieving organizational health, including four disciplines: building a cohesive leadership team, creating clarity, overcommunicating clarity, and reinforcing clarity through systems and practices.

Lencioni draws on his extensive experience consulting with leading organizations to offer stories, tips, and anecdotes that illustrate the importance of organizational health in today's fast-changing business environment.

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Mentioned in 18 episodes

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AJ Bruno
as a book the Quotapath management team read.
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AJ Bruno
while discussing his experience speaking to seventh graders about AI and its impact on their lives.
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Cody Thompson
as relating to the concepts discussed and presented to leaders about healthy organizations.
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Sam Chaudhary
as a reference for creating a high-performing leadership team.
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Christopher Perrin
as a really important work by Patrick Lencioni that echoes biblical principles.
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Episode 33: Leadership in the Classical Tradition with Aristotle, Aurelius, and Christopher Perrin
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Mike Schmitz
as a book he wants to read.
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101: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
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Matt Nolan
as a book that his leadership team read to improve organizational health and build a team-based culture.
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Cassie Young
as one of her all-time favorite reads when talking about leadership.
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Ep 6: The Language of the Boardroom: P&L Fluency and Reading the Market with Cassie Young
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Carey Nieuwhof
, who worked through it with his team to improve clarity, highlighting its challenging but valuable insights.
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Brett Gilliland
as Patrick Lencioni’s organizational effectiveness version.
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Richard Anton
as a “Bible” for organizational health internally and with their portfolio companies.
Richard Anton, General Partner @ Oxx
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AJ Bruno
as the book the management team read before their offsite.
SPOTLIGHT: What It Takes to Step into the CEO Role with Eric Anderson of Walnut
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Mike Chaput
as one of the methodologies he has implemented in his business.
Rebuilding From Rock Bottom:Turn Bankruptcy Into a Breakthrough with Mike Chaput
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Mike Schmitz
as a book he wants to read.
99: The Motive by Patrick Lencioni
Mentioned by Ken Buckman as a book where he was interviewed as an ADHD entrepreneur.
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Kristin Cobb
as one of the books that drove vitamin D into public consciousness.
134: We are not in a low vitamin D epidemic, with Regina Nuzzo PhD & Kristin Cobb PhD
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Ryan Hawk
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Patrick Lencioni
's many books.
388: Patrick Lencioni - The Six Types Of Working Genius
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Manning Sumner
as a good book for culture, community, and work-related topics.
E83: Manning Sumner | The Power of No Days Off

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