The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

by Patrick Lencioni

SIX CRITICAL QUESTIONS What leaders must do to give employees the clarity they need is agree on the answers to six simple but critical questions and thereby eliminate even small discrepancies in their thinking. None of these questions is novel per se. What is new is the realization that none of them can be addressed in isolation; they must be answered together. Failing to achieve alignment around any one of them can prevent an organization from attaining the level of clarity necessary to become healthy. These are the six questions: 1. Why do we exist? 2. How do we behave? 3. What do we do? 4. How will we succeed? 5. What is most important, right now? 6. Who must do what? If members of a leadership team can rally around clear answers to these fundamental questions—without using jargon and shmarmy language—they will drastically increase the likelihood of creating a healthy organization. This may well be the most important step of all in achieving the advantage of organizational health. Answering these questions, like everything else in this book, is as difficult as it is theoretically simple. It’s simple in that it doesn’t require great intellectual capacity or cleverness; every leadership team has more than enough information and experience to achieve clarity. It can be difficult, however, for a variety of reasons.

Ashamed to say that i dont think ive done this to an adequate level.