More than anything, organizations should strive for organizational health. In this episode, Jenn David-Lang and I talk about Patrick Lencioni’s 2012 book  The Advantage Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business. This book clearly and powerfully explains what your organization needs to do to become healthy:

1) Build a cohesive leadership team,

2) Create clarity,

3) Overcommunicate clarity, and

4) Reinforce clarity.

Check out this great two minute video of Lencioni describing the 5 dysfunctions of a team: https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/teamwork-5-dysfunctions/

And here is the self assessment to see which of the 5 behaviors your team is strong in and needs to improve: https://alonso-cadenas.github.io/team-dysfunctions-assessment/assessment

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