Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within ….

When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make..

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one anot….

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competit….

Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experience….

If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that cruc….

. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem..

Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think..

People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human..

An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture ….

As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-….

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading..

Experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes..

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persist….

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust..

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success..

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage..

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around..

An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give its….

If everything is important, then nothing is..

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting.