Patrick Lencioni
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1,711 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 13 Apr
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Any CEO will buy into it.
But if you come in and say, let's get naked and hold hands and sing and catch each other falling out of a chair, that's just dumb.
You know, it's so funny because everybody wants to come up with an assessment or a survey.
And what I like to do is if I can observe the team in a meeting.
That's all you need?
I can see the behaviors.
And in other words, do they debate with passion?
Do they ask tough questions?
Do they have hard conversations around the business?
And is there like some level of what we call healthy conflict, which an outsider might think, whoa, this is kind of an uncomfortable conversation, but they're not uncomfortable.
They're just going after it.
So we can tell like that.
The other thing you can do is you can talk to people in the organization at every level and just find out like, do you come to work and have a sense of where you belong and what you're all trying to do and are you aligned?
Or do you ever compete with people in the organization?
Healthy organizations don't have people competing internally.
They're focused externally on their competition and on serving their customers.
And when you go into an organization and they're talking about, well, marketing doesn't do this, or sales doesn't do this, or engineering can't do this, you're like, oh, that's a problem.
And honestly, if I observe an executive staff meeting for 45 minutes or an hour, I usually can see the signs that that's happening.
It's a great question because
And the key is this, it's always a little uncomfortable.
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