The Four Obsessions of an Extraordina..., Patrick Lencioni
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordina..., Patrick Lencioni
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The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

Author: Patrick Lencioni

Narrator: Charles Stransky

Unabridged: 3 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2002

Synopsis

In this stunning follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni offers up another leadership fable that's every bit as compelling and illuminating as its predecessor. This time, Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organization--an often overlooked but essential element of business life that is the linchpin of sustained success. Readers are treated to a story of corporate intrigue as the frustrated head of one consulting firm faces a leadership challenge so great that it threatens to topple his company, his career, and everything he holds true about leadership itself. In the story's telling, Lencioni helps his readers understand the disarming simplicity and power of creating organizational health, and reveals four key disciplines that they can follow to achieve it.

About The Author

Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to helping leaders improve their organizations' health since 1997. His principles have been embraced by leaders around the world and adopted by organizations of virtually every kind including multinational corporations, entrepreneurial ventures, professional sports teams, the military, nonprofits, schools, and churches.Lencioni is the author of ten business books with over three million copies sold worldwide. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Bloomberg Businessweek, and USA Today.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerry on April 11, 2012

As usual, Patrick does not disappoint. I read this book as part of an executive coaching program I'm involved with. The guidance provided is outstanding and is spot on. Fortunately, I'll be carrying the ideas forward as part of a follow up exercise with our team. I'm really looking forward to proces......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on December 19, 2020

Yet another seriously useful leadership “fable” by Patric Lencioni. He refers to these books as fables, but more precisely, they are fictional teaching narratives. If the idea of a fiction parable makes you uncomfortable, and you would rather just have the straight dope in a brief nonfiction format......more

Goodreads review by Bec on June 10, 2009

While it has a good message, and it deals with a different component of business than most books, but it was just average and a bit over simplified. It looks at organisational health and is based on four basic principles. In saying the principles are basic isn't that they would be basic to implement......more

Goodreads review by Allie on December 16, 2019

Two things I loved about this book - the focus on organisational health, and more broadly that there’s no substitute for discipline. Favourite quote: “clarity provides power like nothing else can”. When people have clarity, in their roles, strategy, mission, objectives, rewards, it’s the ultimate too......more

Goodreads review by Julianne on November 30, 2020

I like nonfiction, but business books are a mixed bag. You have some that spend way too long saying the same thing in 55 different ways, with outdated examples, or the super-long technically brilliant books that take forever to slog through. But Patrick Lecioni's books are different. Seriously, thes......more

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