The Advantage

Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

By: Patrick Lencioni

Narrated by: Patrick Lencioni

Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.

Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health - complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way - one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.

©2012 Patrick Lencioni (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc

this book is so helpful on so many levels.

I'm glad that I have read the book and look forward to reading the book and sharing it with my colleagues.

Really a great book which made me to understand why the organisation health is more important than the smartness

What I liked in this book is this can be practiced in all types of organisations
I will recommend this books to all the Vice Presidents and presidents and CEOs and even to managing firectors

Passive Agreement... now I know!

Great book! I now have a better understanding of my own frustration in dealing with those that regularly exercise being passively agreeable.

Must Read

I hope all leaders and executives read this book. Very important for all entrepreneurs to understand and implement.

Lenciioni nails it!

A must read for any business owner and every strategic manager. Really good at understanding mission and culture.

Reconnecting the boardroom with reality

The head is a great survival tool but it gets easily lost in delusion due to fear, trauma, productivity pressures and perceived expectations. Only the heart connects us to the present moment which includes all the people around us and all their thoughts, feelings, courage and other vital qualities that make work life and all life worth while. If you want to connect with your customers you will have to connect to your heart and the people around you and stop discounting the present moment for the mind's safety delusions. Pat does a great job of reading his work and changing the world by reconnecting boardrooms that are dead below the neck and just don't realize it.

Insightful, Resourceful and helpful

This book provided with me with much needed insight and guidance, allowing me to be more startegic in how i can contribute towards organizational help, and also ask the right questions when needed for clarity of business objectives.

Highly recommended read!

Congruent with TRACTION and EOS

My company is integrating the entrepreneurial operating system. The five dysfunctions of a team is somewhat of a required reading for that system. This book goes beyond with some tactical strategies that happen to be completely congruent with those listed out in the book traction. They aren’t the same; traction and EOS is simpler, but I think a good step to putting us in position to take full advantage of what is in this book, the advantage.

Meetings are necessary.

A must read book for small business owners. Get out of the day to day and grow your business. This will help.

Great

Great information on organizational health and culture and the impact on teams and businesses including what to do to fix it.