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The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable
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. more
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- Posted: Oct-19-2009
A Must Read for Anyone in Business
I have read many books on leadership and even written a few training manuals. This book is to the point, concise and focused. You sort of feel sorry for the bad guy as he doesn't have a clue as to what is going on. The way the group gets the work alloted and done is great. We all need to be more...
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- Posted: Sep-27-2009
A foundation for excellence
The Four Obsessions of a CEO is a fictitious story about two companies with very different cultures. Nothing new here, just a poignant reminder why executing the fundamentals is the foundation for any business to grow and thrive.
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- Posted: Jan-08-2009
An Amazing Series of Insights - Must Read
One of the series of leadership fables, Patrick Lencioni did not disappoint with this fable. As with The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable and Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business, just to name a few, Patrick Lencioni weaves an...
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- Posted: Nov-10-2008
An engaging story with concrete, memorable examples
I've previously read Death By Meeting by Patrick Lencioni. I really connect with his ability to tell an engaging story which communicates the point. He then spends the last third of this book describing the four principals and how to put them into practice within the organization.The four...
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- Posted: Jul-23-2008
Interesting View of a "Healthy Organization"
Patrick Lencioni, utilizing his engaging fable-as-lesson writing style, covers his view of the four "Disciplines" of a healthy organization in "The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive." The fable...and the "Model" underlying the fable...stresses the importance of clarity in a healthy...
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- Posted: May-06-2008
Did the extraordinary executive get it wrong?
Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive is Patrick Lencioni's second book written in 2000, again it is a fiction as well as a management book. The readers would be eager to know the obsessions of that very successful person. CEO is supposed to be rational and sensible. It is curious to note that...
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- Posted: Apr-12-2008
A Great Companion to Good to Great!
Although The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable was published in 2000 it is still the very best companion to Jim Collins' Good to Great. Lencioni's parable illustrates better than any other book the simple but powerful principles of building and maintaining a...
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- Posted: Oct-31-2007
Great simple insights in a pleasurable format
I have read or listened to a number of Patrick Lencioni's books. The fable format makes them entertaining, and the simple management principles ring true. I gave this four stars because it is eclipsed by another one of Pat's books that shares some of the principles and has a better story line to...
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- Posted: Jul-12-2007
Obviously, not all obsessions are productive and beneficial
This is one in a series of "leadership fables" in which Patrick Lencioni shares his thoughts about the contemporary business world. His characters are fictitious human beings rather than anthropomorphic animals, such as a tortoise that wins a race against a hare or pigs that lead a revolution to...
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- Posted: Dec-27-2006
Highly Effective Teaching Tool
So far I've given this book to 3 of my middle managers in an effort to explain to them what type of company I want to run. Every one of them has found Four Obsessions incredibly useful. I'd make it required reading for anyone in your business that needs help understanding the way a company...
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