“The Advantage has more common sense in its 200 pages than I have ever found in a business book. A must read.”
— Colleen Barrett
president emeritus
Southwest Airlines Co.; coauthor, Lead with LUV
“Here is the next business classic. Even the best leaders will read this and wonder, ‘why aren't we already doing this?’”
— Enrique Salem
president and CEO
Symantec
“We are doing what most said could not be done in a down economy - start and exponentially grow a business. Using Lencioni’s model for organizational health is an everyday choice and a way of life for our company.”
— Liz Townsend
COO
My Fit Foods
“Lencioni's approach to organizational health is a game-changer. It's a whole new way of looking at competitive advantage.”
— Jeff Scherer
senior vice president
Bain Capital
“For more than a decade I've been using Lencioni's approach to run the departments I lead, and it has never failed me.”
— Rick Friedel
vice president
AT&T Service Management
“Our teams and leaders have really embraced Lencioni's methodology. We've put these ideas into practice and we're experiencing the results that prove it works.”
— David Gordon
COO
The Cheesecake Factory
“In The Advantage, Lencioni cuts through the corporate “bull” that creates a culture of stonewalling and feet dragging, and shows leaders at every level how to build up a culture of productivity and communication.”
— Dave Ramsey
New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host
“Lencioni’s organizational health principles and practices allowed our organization to tap into its intellectual capital and talent like never before. We are seeing organizational transformation right before our eyes.”
— Steve Burr
senior vice president
Carolinas HealthCare System
“When I first told my team that we were going to work on organizational health, everybody rolled their eyes and thought it was going to be touchy-feely. They quickly realized it wasn’t. As a result of implementing Lencioni’s program, we now know exactly who we are, what we do, why we do it, and who can be successful in our company. Our culture and bottom line have both been transformed.”
— Clinton Anderson
CEO
Downunder Horsemanship
“After two years of work around organizational health, we had our best year ever in the midst of the most challenging time our market has ever faced. We can’t imagine having the success we did had we not adopted this approach.”
— Peter Levangie
president
Bay State Milling
“Our work around organizational health helped us recognize our state of crisis and found it wasn’t due to market conditions; rather, it was because we were broken as a team and on a trajectory for failure as a business. Taking on organizational health as a priority has been nothing short of transformational.”
— Matt Danilowicz
president and managing director
Clear-Com
“The work we have done around organizational health saved us. It is the reason we are in the position we are today.”
— Jeff Sackrison
president
Chowan Hospital
“Our consistent focus on organizational health continues to provide us with a real competitive advantage. If the world had discovered Patrick Lencioni sooner, there would be fewer complex leadership and management cult theories, and more effective leaders.”
— Gordon Samson
managing director
Williams Lea
“We have learned that in order for us to be successful at work, literally saving lives, we need to be healthy. Working through the organizational health material has helped us clarify who we are, what we do, and what kind of behaviors we expect from people. This work has allowed us to minimize organizational politics and has profoundly impacted our ability to carry out our mission.”
— Elaine Berg
former president and CEO
New York Organ Donor Network
“Our company has grown over 50 percent during the last three years of economic turmoil. It started with the game-changing work of Patrick Lencioni and our focus on organizational health. I spent my academic and professional career focused on ‘smart,’ with little attention to ‘healthy.’ We were out of balance; now we are not. The results speak for themselves.”
— Richard M. Heard
president
Insight Investments
“We have made Lencioni’s methodology core to our long-term strategic roadmap. The results have been nothing short of fantastic. Employee satisfaction, communication, cooperation, and true teamwork have all improved dramatically— ensuring our spot on Inc. magazine’s list of fastest growing companies for the sixth year in a row.”
— Smith Yewell
CEO
Welocalize
“The principles of organizational health have deeply impacted our company and continue to serve as a driving force for us as we grow and develop. The organizational clarity piece prompted us to become aligned and realize that we needed to make fundamental shifts in many aspects of our business. With determination and consistency, we exceeded all our goals.”
— Steven C. Cooper
president and CEO
TrueBlue
“Our work around organizational health is literally giving kids the opportunity to go to college. We finally have the team, the culture, and the systems in place to work through the inevitable challenges we must overcome to achieve our goals.”
— Tom Torkelson
founder and CEO
IDEA Public Schools
“By using the organizational health model, we have created an extraordinary and productive work environment. The design and construction industry has taken note, and we have had many outsiders ask what is so special about our approach.”
— Jay Leopold
regional manager
DPR Construction
“By applying the tenets of organizational health, we have moved farther forward in the last eighteen months than we had the previous four years. Many of the employees had legacy issues and didn’t think we could actually change. We have proved that we can and the group is enjoying the benefits of being part of a high-performing team.”
— Lynn Sasser
executive leader
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
“As a leader in our field, we were suffering from acute growing pains with no end in sight. Since adopting organizational health as the core of everything we do, our business is back on track with renewed energy and momentum. Our staff, our clients, our families, and our bottom line have reaped the benefits of making organizational health a priority.”
— Ken Allman
founder and CEO
PracticeLink.com
An organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified. Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. The Advantage provides readers with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health.
