The Advantage
Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
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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.
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An organization cannot be healthy if the people who are chartered with running it are not behaviorally cohesive in five fundamental ways.
In any kind of organization, dysfunction and lack of cohesion at the top inevitably lead to a lack of health throughout.
In any kind of organization, dysfunction and lack of cohesion at the top inevitably lead to a lack of health throughout.
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