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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

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ISBN
9780470941522

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Praise for The Advantage " The Advantage has more common sense in its 200 pages than I have ever found in a business book. A must-read." Colleen Barrett , president emeritus, Southwest Airlines Co.; coauthor, Lead with LUV "Here is the next business classic. Even the best leaders will read this and wonder, Why arent we already doing this?" Enrique Salem , president and CEO, Symantec "We are doing what most said could not be done in a down economy start and exponentially grow a business. Using Lencionis model for organizational health is an everyday choice and a way of life for our company." Liz Townsend , COO, My Fit Foods "For more than a decade Ive been using Lencionis approach to run the departments I lead, and it has never failed me." Rick Friedel , vice president, AT&T Service Management "Our teams and leaders have really embraced Lencionis methodology. Weve put these ideas into practice and were experiencing the results that prove it works." David Gordon , COO, The Cheesecake Factory "In The Advantage , Lencioni cuts through the corporate bull that creates a culture of stonewalling and feet-dragging, and shows leaders at every level how to build up a culture of productivity and communication." Dave Ramsey , New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host

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Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0470941529
ISBN-13
9780470941522
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110996753

Product Key Features

Book Title
Advantage : Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Leadership, Personal Success, Organizational Behavior, Management
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics
Author
Patrick M. Lencioni
Book Series
JB Lencioni Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-050953
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Consulting executive Lencioni (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team) has an answer for floundering businesses'aim for organizational health. In other words, businesses that are whole, consistent, and complete, with complementary management, operations, strategy, and culture. Today, the vast majority of organizations have more than enough intelligence, experience, and knowledge to be successful. Organizational health is neither sexy nor quantifiable, which is why more people don't take advantage. However, improved health will not only create a competitive advantage and better bottom line, it will boost morale. Lencioni covers four steps to health: build a cohesive leadership team, create clarity, overcommunicate clarity, and reinforce clarity. Through examples of his own experiences and others', he addresses the behaviors of a cohesive team, peer-to-peer accountability, office politics and bureaucracy and strategy, and how all organizations should strive to make people's lives better. This smart, pithy, and practical guide is a must-read for executives and other businesspeople who need to get their proverbial ducks back in a row. (Apr.) ( Publishers Weekly , 1/16/12), 'Something in it for everyone…a lot of value in it' ( Alan Jordon, Sales Director of Bookbuzz) 'The book contains a wealth of practical yet profound advice that would be of benefit to any HR or organisational professional.' (HR Zone, September 2012) 'geared mainly at leader's, I believe it is applicable to any medium sized to large organisation.' (Professional Manager, November 2012)
Target Audience
Trade
Table Of Content
Introduction xv The case for organizational health 1 The four Disciplines model 15 Discipline 1: Build a Cohesive Leadership Team 19 Discipline 2: Create Clarity 73 Discipline 3: Overcommunicate Clarity 141 Discipline 4: Reinforce Clarity 153 The Centrality of Great Meetings 173 Seizing the Advantage 189 Checklist for Organizational Health 195 More Resources 199 Notes 201 Acknowledgments 203 About the Author 205 Index 207
Synopsis
Praise for The Advantage " The Advantage has more common sense in its 200 pages than I have ever found in a business book. A must-read." Colleen Barrett , president emeritus, Southwest Airlines Co.; coauthor, Lead with LUV "Here is the next business classic. Even the best leaders will read this and wonder, Why arent we already doing this?" Enrique Salem , president and CEO, Symantec "We are doing what most said could not be done in a down economy start and exponentially grow a business. Using Lencionis model for organizational health is an everyday choice and a way of life for our company." Liz Townsend , COO, My Fit Foods "For more than a decade Ive been using Lencionis approach to run the departments I lead, and it has never failed me." Rick Friedel , vice president, AT&T Service Management "Our teams and leaders have really embraced Lencionis methodology. Weve put these ideas into practice and were experiencing the results that prove it works." David Gordon , COO, The Cheesecake Factory "In The Advantage , Lencioni cuts through the corporate bull that creates a culture of stonewalling and feet-dragging, and shows leaders at every level how to build up a culture of productivity and communication." Dave Ramsey , New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host, Tagline: Patrick Lencionis first full-length nonfiction book. This book brings together all of the themes of Patrick Lencionis other bestselling books into a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of organizational health - what it means for an organization to be "healthy", why its critical for success, and how to get there., 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.
Lc Classification Number
Hd58.7
Copyright Date
2012

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