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The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues QUOTES

The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues QUOTES

1 " So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

2 " If you ask me, the best thing that's happened in the last year is that we've almost become a jackass-free zone. No matter what happens, and what challenge we might face, give me a roomful of people who aren't jackasses, and I'll be happy to take it on. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

3 " Great team players lack excessive ego or concerns about status. They are quick to point out the contributions of others and slow to seek attention for their own. They share credit, emphasize team over self, and define success collectively rather than individually. It is no great surprise, then, that humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

4 " The five behavioral manifestations of teamwork: trust, conflict, commitment, accountability and results "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

5 " Stop making the perfect enemy of the good. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

6 " Clare offered a half-hearted suggestion. “Well, there are coaches I know who do one-on-one counseling.” Bobby shook his head. “No, that doesn't usually work. It takes months and only isolates people. It seems like most of them just use it to prepare for their next job. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

7 " Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

8 " Scare People with Sincerity "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

9 " Leaders who can identify, hire, and cultivate employees who are humble, hungry, and smart will have a serious advantage over those who cannot. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

10 " The most unhappy people in a company are the ones who don't fit the culture and are allowed to stay. They know they don't belong. Deep down inside they don't want to be there. They're miserable. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

11 " First, we go figure out how to recognize a real team player, the kind of person who can easily build trust, engage in healthy conflict, make real commitments, hold people accountable, and focus on the team's results. Then, we stop hiring people who can't. Finally, we help the people who are acting like jackasses change their ways or move on to different companies. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

12 " Humble Only: The Pawn "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

13 " Hungry Only: The Bulldozer "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

14 " Well,” he was clearly thinking out loud, “probably someone who wants to be at practice. I love gym rats, but not just the kind who want to play one-on-one all day. I like the kids who come early and do extra drills. And watch film even when they don't have to.” He paused before adding, “And who kind of hate to lose.” “Sore losers?” Ben shook his head. “No, not at all. I mean, the kind who come to practice wanting to work as hard as they can to avoid losing. Coaching them is easy. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

15 " Great team players lack excessive ego or concerns about status. They are quick to point out the contributions of others and slow to seek attention for their own. They share credit, emphasize team over self, and define success collectively rather than individually. It is no great surprise, then, that humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player. Humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

16 " Many people will try to get a job even if they don't fit the company's stated values, but very few will do so if they know that they're going to be held accountable, day in and day out, for behavior that violates the values. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

17 " It's important not to misread my advice as permission to tolerate people who don't fit. Too often, leaders know that an employee really doesn't belong and would be better elsewhere, and they fail to act because they lack courage. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

18 " The most important part of the development process, and the part that is so often missing, is the leader's commitment to constantly “reminding” an employee if she is not yet doing what is needed. Without this, improvement will not occur. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

19 " All too often in life, we see people do what we want them to do and we say nothing, assuming that the behavior has become natural for them, an easy standard. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

20 " Tell me about the most important accomplishments of your career.” Look for more mentions of we than I. "

― Patrick Lencioni , The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues