“Organizational health will one day surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and competitive advantage.”
This is the promise of The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni’s bold manifesto about the most unexploited opportunity in modern business. In his immensely readable and accessible style, Lencioni makes the case that there is no better way to achieve profound improvement in an organization than by attacking the root causes of dysfunction, politics, and confusion.
While too many leaders are still limiting their search for advantage to conventional and largely exhausted areas like marketing, strategy, and technology, Lencioni demonstrates that there is an untapped gold mine sitting right beneath them. Instead of trying to become smarter, he asserts that leaders and organizations need to shift their focus to becoming healthier, allowing them to tap into the more-than-sufficient intelligence and expertise they already have.
The author of numerous bestselling business fables including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Death by Meeting, Lencioni here draws upon his twenty years of writing, field research, and executive consulting to some of the world’s leading organizations. He combines real-world stories and anecdotes with practical, actionable advice to create a work that is at once a great read and an invaluable, hands-on tool. The result is, without a doubt, Lencioni’s most comprehensive, significant, and essential work to date.
Even a Moron Like Me Can Do This I am a church planter. That means I started an organization that didn’t exist and have spent the past six years trying to lead it toward fulfillment of its mission.During this process we have seen a significant measure of success and also a significant measure of frustration. The success is solely due to God’s grace. The frustration is largely due to the fact that though I know how to start a healthy organization I don’t know how to keep that organization healthy as it grows and…
The Advantage to The Advantage The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in BusinessBy Patrick LencioniPatrick Lencioni is a proven master of the business fable–a short story that provides a lesson that can be applied to the business world. His numerous bestsellers, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” “Death by Meeting,” and “Silos, Politics and Turf Wars,” among others, each focus on providing the reader with a lesson on a particular business topic.In his latest book,…