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  • Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
  • Written by: Patrick Lencioni
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  • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (123 ratings)

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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. 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

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Brings it all Together

I first read this book about 6 years ago and wasn't as familiar with Pat's content. Now after reading and listening to all of his books this one ties everything together! I highly recommend this book.

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A must read for any leader

Brilliant! So much clarity around concepts and actions that many non business, non human management trained, leaders and business owners vaguely think about but can never quite connect. A thoughtful tested guidebook for those willing to do some hard work together to build better organizations.

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Great for leadership and individual contributors

Great content for org leaders. Most of the concepts apply to individual contributors as well.
in this new world where remote work and telecommuting are the norm, more applicable examples would be beneficial.
Thanks for the great read!

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improve your organizational health

this informative and structured approach towards improving the health of the organization will certainly be useful to companies of a certain size.

This book was recommended to me as a must read (or listen, in my case, via Audible). My business is a solopreneurship with the intention of growing in staff, so much the information here will be useful as a roadmap to maintain/improve our organizational health as we evolve.

Would have been nice to have a section on solopreneurship, and discussion of self-check in strategies equivalent to what you'd do in the larger group meetings.

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Excellent,

Only two complaints. First the chapter divisions in the audiobook do not align with the actual reading of the book. Secondly at times you wish Patrick said a bit more but perhaps his points is to keep the book brief and lay out the big vision.

Recommend reading alongside Jim Collins Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0.

Well narrated very helpful.

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  • A. Yoshida
  • 2014-05-09

Good book for leaders of an organization

The author calls it "organizational health." I prefer to think of it as an authentic organization. Health gives the impression that it's a matter of following a regiment of good habits. Whereas authentic implies that it has to come from within the individuals. The book applies to leaders of an organization, not so much to workers. If you're not a manager, you would not even get to practice the first discipline of building a cohesive team (build trust, work through conflicts, commit to decisions, be accountable, and focus on results). The other three disciplines really need to come the top leadership of the organization - create clarity in purpose and direction of the organization, over communicate that message, and reinforce that message.

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  • ALWALEED
  • 2015-05-07

Advantage

This book changed the way I think about managing my companies and let me understand a lot of staff's behavior that run through my companies for a long time and I have started to eliminate it after reading this book

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  • M
  • 2012-04-30

Good book - bad choice for audio book

I really liked it - but the flaw in my plan is that I cannot highlight an audio book or make notes in the margins!!

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  • Optimize the Balance
  • 2012-05-13

More please

What did you love best about The Advantage?

I have read all Patrick Lencioni's books twice, except for this one because it only came out in March. I plan to read it again within a year. I liked his book because it combined content from all his books. It is almost a how to lead and run a company. Though I wish it had a fable. By the time I got to the end of the book I wanted to read it again. So there was only initial disappointment that it did not have a fable.

What did you like best about this story?

The message.

What about Patrick Lencioni???s performance did you like?

His passion.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

How leadership should be executed.

Any additional comments?

Wish it had a fable. Patrick's fables are fun and comprehendible.

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  • Drake Jarman
  • 2015-11-17

hits a little too close to home!

Loved the author's ability to boil down hard topics for organizational health. A must read!

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  • GJB
  • 2015-08-11

A little disappointed...

This is an summary/alignment of the other books/fables Patrick Lencioni has written. For the first time reader the individual books are more useful.

This books is useful to summarize and implement Patrick's teachings. I bought the audiobook and wish I'd just got the book to refer to.

The audiobook of the fables are great to listen to driving places...especially long distance.

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  • Nancy
  • 2018-12-31

Worth a listen

As a business owner, I search for helpful business books and this one was OK. If I can glean anything I won't return a business book, so this one will stay in my library. It is hard to beat Simon Sinek's Leaders Eat Last which sets the bar high. Patrick Lencioni gave reminders that you need not be afraid to repeat yourself often regarding the core cultural values. Don't worry about offending people with repetition, you won't, which is a good point. I love that he feels mission statements are mostly silly platitudes. Core cultural values are what matter most.

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  • Adam
  • 2021-11-27

Fantastic principles and storytelling

More than finance and strategy, culture will define our enduring competitive advantage. Patrick tells how.

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  • KP
  • 2019-11-20

useless

A book focused on semantics and redefining words that need not redefined. This was a pointless common sense waste of time

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  • Philips Adeniyi
  • 2019-08-14

Great

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

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  • MORNAND Ludovic
  • 2021-09-01

Livre très intéressant

La narration est très bonne, même si pour un premier livre audio il faut arriver à se mettre dedans. Les bonus gratuits à télécharger sur le site sont intéressants et l'ensemble du concept de "Organizational Health" m'a vraiment parlé. Je n'hésiterai pas à mettre en place pas mal de concepts de ce livre dans ma manière de travailler et de collaborer avec mes collègues et partenaires.

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  • Jubinville Raymond
  • 2020-03-24

Excellent... et dans le fond et dans la forme

Celui qui veut être un chef avec un authentique succès a intérêt à lire et mettre en œuvre les conseils de ce livre. Merci à l’auteur et à toute son équipe !

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  • Damien Thouvenin
  • 2017-09-09

Un must pour tous les dirigeants

Recommanderiez-vous ce livre audio à un ami ? Expliquez pourquoi.

Patrick Lencioni founit un modèle à la fois très simple et très puissant pour aligner son équipe et son organisation : construire une équipe soudée, expliciter ce qui est critique, sur-communiquer et renforcer ce qui a été explicité. Pour chaque partie il donne des exercices, des modèles et des exemples tirés de son expérience de consultants qui rendent l'ensemble très clair et applicable.

Qu'avez-vous aimé de la performance de Patrick Lencioni ?

Je préfère souvent les livres lus par leur auteur car ceux-ci mettent mieux en évidence, par leur ton, la structure et les éléments importants de leur texte. Patrick Lencioni ne fait pas eception à cette règle mais semble en plus posséder une vraie maitrise de son flow et de son ton. La lecture est très fluide et agréable. L'accent américain n'est pas très prononcé et, du coup, très compréhensible.

Si vous faisiez une adaptation de ce livre audio au cinéma, quel en serait le slogan ?

4 disciplines et 6 questions pour aligner son codir et son entreprise

Avez-vous d'autres commentaires ?

Ce livre m'a tellement plut que je l'ai écouté 2 fois de suite pour reprendre en notes tout ce qui m'avait échappé à la première écoute.

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