The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
by Patrick Lencioni
A fable of two CEOs, one disciplined and one brilliant, teaching the four disciplines: build a cohesive leadership team, create organizational clarity, over-communicate it, reinforce it through human systems. It is the seed of The Advantage and quicker to read.
Read it if…
you want Lencioni's organizational health model in fable form.
Skip it if…
you want the complete treatment; see The Advantage.
Three things you will actually use
- A cohesive leadership team is the first discipline.
- Clarity, then repetition.
- Hiring and reviews must reinforce the clarity.
Do this first
Answer the six clarity questions with your team: why do we exist, how do we behave, what do we do, how will we succeed, what is most important now, who does what.
Our verdict
Quick model in fable form.
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