Patrick M. Lencioni - The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

Real-World Testimonials About the Advantage of Organizational Health

Lencionis organizational health principles and practices allowed our organization to tap into its intellectual capital and talent like never before. We are seeing organizational transformation right before our eyes.

Steve Burr, senior vice president, Carolinas HealthCare System

When I first told my team that we were going to work on organizational health, everybody rolled their eyes and thought it was going to be touchy-feely. They quickly realized it wasnt. As a result of implementing Lencionis program, we now know exactly who we are, what we do, why we do it, and who can be successful in our company. Our culture and bottom line have both been transformed.

Clinton Anderson, CEO, Downunder Horsemanship

After two years of work around organizational health, we had our best year ever in the midst of the most challenging time our market has ever faced. We cant imagine having the success we did had we not adopted this approach.

Peter Levangie, president, Bay State Milling

Our work around organizational health helped us recognize our state of crisis and found it wasnt due to market conditions; rather, it was because we were broken as a team and on a trajectory for failure as a business. Taking on organizational health as a priority has been nothing short of transformational.

Matt Danilowicz, president and managing director, Clear-Com

The work we have done around organizational health saved us. It is the reason we are in the position we are today.

Jeff Sackrison, president, Chowan Hospital

Our consistent focus on organizational health continues to provide us with a real competitive advantage. If the world had discovered Patrick Lencioni sooner, there would be fewer complex leadership and management cult theories, and more effective leaders.

Gordon Samson, managing director, Williams Lea

We have learned that in order for us to be successful at work, literally saving lives, we need to be healthy. Working through the organizational health material has helped us clarify who we are, what we do, and what kind of behaviors we expect from people. This work has allowed us to minimize organizational politics and has profoundly impacted our ability to carry out our mission.

Elaine Berg, former president and CEO, New York Organ Donor Network

Our company has grown over 50 percent during the last three years of economic turmoil. It started with the game-changing work of Patrick Lencioni and our focus on organizational health. I spent my academic and professional career focused on smart, with little attention to healthy. We were out of balance; now we are not. The results speak for themselves.

Richard M. Heard, president, Insight Investments

We have made Lencionis methodology core to our long-term strategic roadmap. The results have been nothing short of fantastic. Employee satisfaction, communication, cooperation, and true teamwork have all improved dramaticallyensuring our spot on Inc. magazines list of fastest growing companies for the sixth year in a row.

Smith Yewell, CEO, Welocalize

The principles of organizational health have deeply impacted our company and continue to serve as a driving force for us as we grow and develop. The organizational clarity piece prompted us to become aligned and realize that we needed to make fundamental shifts in many aspects of our business. With determination and consistency, we exceeded all our goals.

Steven C. Cooper, president and CEO, TrueBlue

Our work around organizational health is literally giving kids the opportunity to go to college. We finally have the team, the culture, and the systems in place to work through the inevitable challenges we must overcome to achieve our goals.

Tom Torkelson, founder and CEO, IDEA Public Schools

By using the organizational health model, we have created an extraordinary and productive work environment. The design and construction industry has taken note, and we have had many outsiders ask what is so special about our approach.

Jay Leopold, regional manager, DPR Construction

By applying the tenets of organizational health, we have moved farther forward in the last eighteen months than we had the previous four years. Many of the employees had legacy issues and didnt think we could actually change. We have proved that we can and the group is enjoying the benefits of being part of a high-performing team.

Lynn Sasser, executive leader, Baptist State Convention of North Carolina

As a leader in our field, we were suffering from acute growing pains with no end in sight. Since adopting organizational health as the core of everything we do, our business is back on track with renewed energy and momentum. Our staff, our clients, our families, and our bottom line have reaped the benefits of making organizational health a priority.

Ken Allman, founder and CEO, PracticeLink.com

Our organization was historically at war. We had a strong business model, but we needed something more foundational. We needed to cut past the history and build a more cohesive leadership team that provided clarity to the entire organization; we needed to build a healthier organization. It has been a journey, but the people in our multifaceted company are now working together instead of against each other.

Robert R. Auray, vice chairman, Reverse Logistics and Remarketing, GENCO ATC

By applying Lencionis principles, our organizations performance has dramatically improved. We are nimbler, more efficient, more cohesive, and able to focus on important challenges rather than the day-to-day minutiae that were dragging us down. This new approach to work is energizing, and more fun to boot.

Bill Colleran, CEO, Impinj

The concept of organizational health has enabled our management team to drive healthy behaviors throughout our company, which has supported our growth over the last eighteen months.

Colin Guppy, managing director, HMD Pumps

We have always considered ourselves to be a smart company and have never given our health much thought. We recently shifted our approach and have seen a great response from employees and customers alike.

Tom Sloane, vice president sales, Export Development Canada

As a group of highly-educated, motivated, and skeptical individuals, it only took about five minutes for Lencionis principles to capture our attention and subsequently take us on an important journey. We are now a healthier unit, ready to tackle the major issues facing our business. This new approach to work is now a strategic advantage.

Alfred Foglio, managing director, GI Partners

Pats work around organizational health has been truly instrumental for our companys success. It is the foundational underpinning of our new Leadership Institute.

Greg Serrao, CEO, American Dental Partners

Our executive team had plateaued and found itself unprepared to meet the fast pace of change ahead. Through the adoption of Lencionis model for organizational health, the executive team experienced greater cohesion and collaboration which, in turn, flowed down and impacted the entire organization. In fact, an outside rating group declared that our organization had undergone a culture change that would position us for continued success in the future.

Ricky D. Napper, CEO, Magnolia Regional Health Center

Lencionis teamwork and organizational health concepts have focused our entire organization around our mission, allowing us to achieve superior results. All organizations can benefit from these principles.

David C. Haley, president, HBK Capital Management

Organizational health is the cornerstone of our culture and provides a blueprint for our companys everyday work environment. We have made critical business decisionseven closed storesin order to maintain our health. In the last couple of years, we have increased our cash flow, strengthened our team, and set our family of Harley-Davidson stores apart from others.