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.
In this collection, The Advantage references 3 other books and is cited by 1 other book.
It draws on The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Good to Great and Built to Last.
It’s picked up by An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization.
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Synthesizes the trust-conflict-commitment-accountability-results model from Lencioni's own Five Dysfunctions as the foundation of Discipline 1, building a cohesive leadership team
Credits Collins' Good to Great for the methodological point that qualitative field research is as valid as quantitative if practitioners find it useful, cited directly in the introduction
Builds the create-clarity discipline on Collins and Porras's Built to Last concepts of core purpose and core values, explicitly crediting them in the text
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Both Kegan and Lencioni argue that organisational health requires vulnerability and transparency; Kegan's DDO model provides the developmental psychology behind Lencioni's Advantage framework
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An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organizationby Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
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