Full name: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

Author: Patrick Lencioni Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Business, Leadership, Non Fiction, Self help, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780470941522 0470941529

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerfulthan any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarteremployees? No, New York Times best-selling author, PatrickLencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successfulcompanies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they knowand how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. Inthis book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many ofthe themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and deliversa first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the uniqueadvantage organizational health provides. Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations andculture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform theircounterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide anenvironment where star performers never want to leave.Lencioni's first non-fiction book provides leaders with agroundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizationalhealth--complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from hisexperiences consulting to some of the nation's leadingorganizations. In this age of informational ubiquity andnano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitiveadvantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides afoundational construct for conducting business in a newway--one that maximizes human potential and aligns theorganization around a common set of principles. Similar books: The Three Signs of a Miserable Job by Patrick Lencioni Know-How by Ram Charan The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni Monday Morning Leadership by David Cottrell Silos, Politics and Turf Wars by Patrick Lencioni Credibility by James M. Kouzes Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal 29 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch by Robert Slater Start with Why by Simon Sinek Leaders by Warren Bennis Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins The Radical Leap by Steve Farber The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher