301: How to Get the Ideal Team Player, with Patrick Lencioni
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Lencioni: The Ideal Team Player
Patrick Lencioni is the founder of The Table Group and the author of 11 books which have sold over 5 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. He is the author of the blockbuster bestseller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team*, and his most recent bestseller, The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues*.
Key Points
- Team players should be humble, hungry, and smart. Of the three, hunger is the hardest to teach later in life.
- Standard interviews don’t work. Think of unconventional ways to really get to know the interviewee.
- All the people interviewing a person need to evaluate the candidate using the same standards.
- There is a very high opportunity cost for hiring someone with values that don’t fit into your organization.
Resources Mentioned
- Table Group Hub
- The Ideal Team Player* by Patrick Lencioni
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team* by Patrick Lencioni
- The Look and Sound of Leadership
Book Notes
Download my highlights from the The Ideal Team Player in PDF format (free membership required).
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| 0:00.0 | We've all faced the challenge of finding the right people for our organizations, and most of us have struggled with even defining what the word right means. |
| 0:09.0 | On today's episode, Patrick Lincioni teaches us how to get ideal team players. This is coaching for leaders episode |
| 0:16.2 | 301. |
| 0:18.2 | Produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing Human Potential. morning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:25.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:31.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm'm your host Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:35.8 | Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical |
| 0:40.8 | wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader and I'm so glad |
| 0:45.4 | that you joined in today today a conversation that is going to be one that I |
| 0:49.7 | know will stick with you and one that many of us have thought of over the years especially if you've read the book by Jim Collins good to great |
| 0:58.8 | Jim Collins talks about getting the right people on the bus. |
| 1:02.6 | And many of us have heard that phrase over the years, |
| 1:05.2 | and we've thought a lot about getting the right people |
| 1:07.5 | on the bus in our organizations. |
| 1:09.7 | And yet, the practical how to do that often isn't explored in as much detail and today's |
| 1:16.2 | guest I know is going to give us a lot of practical tips on doing that and that is |
| 1:20.2 | Patrick Lincioni Pat is the founder of the Table Group |
| 1:24.2 | and the author of 11 books which have sold |
| 1:26.9 | over 5 million copies and been translated |
| 1:29.7 | into more than 30 languages. |
| 1:31.7 | The Wall Street Journal called him one of the most in-demand |
| 1:34.5 | speakers in America. He has addressed millions of people at conferences and events |
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