Business Consultant, Author
Patrick Lencioni is an American business management consultant and founder of The Table Group, a firm focused on organisational health and team dynamics. He is best known for his business fable 'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,' along with 'The Advantage,' 'The Ideal Team Player,' and 'Death by Meeting.'
by Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni uses a leadership fable to diagnose five interconnected failures that cripple teams: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.
by Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni argues that organisational health, being whole, consistent, and minimally politicized, is the last untapped competitive advantage because it is free and nobody is doing it. He lays out four disciplines: build a cohesive leadership team, create clarity, overcommunicate clarity, and reinforce clarity through human systems.
by Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni argues that the best team players are humble, hungry, and smart (people-smart), and that missing any one of the three creates predictable failure modes like the accidental mess-maker or the skillful politician. The fable follows a construction company heir using the three-virtue model to hire, coach, and fire against a team-first culture.
The books Patrick Lencioni references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jim Collins
Collins studied why some good companies become great and others do not. The answer: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action, not bold transformation programmes.
by Jim Collins
Collins studied companies that sustained exceptional performance for decades. The key: preserve a core ideology while relentlessly adapting strategies. Vision without dogma.
by Kerry Patterson
Patterson argues that most organisational failures trace back to crucial conversations people avoid. Learning to speak honestly when stakes are high and emotions run strong changes everything.
Who Patrick draws from, and who draws from Patrick — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.