The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

by Patrick Lencioni

CHECKLIST FOR DISCIPLINE 4: REINFORCE CLARITY Members of a leadership team can be confident that they’ve mastered this discipline when they can affirm the following statements: The organization has a simple way to ensure that new hires are carefully selected based on the company’s values. New people are brought into the organization by thoroughly teaching them about the six elements of clarity. Managers throughout the organization have a simple, consistent, and nonbureaucratic system for setting goals and reviewing progress with employees. That system is customized around the elements of clarity. Employees who don’t fit the values are managed out of the organization. Poor performers who do fit the values are given the coaching and assistance they need to succeed. Compensation and reward systems are built around the values and goals of the organization.