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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.
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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