Patrick Lencioni is one of the most prolific authors of the past 25 years. His books on business and leadership have shaped a generation of knowledge workers.
I still remember the first time I read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and its core principles still resonate today. Great books are like that.
Through a board assignment, I got to know Pat well, even to the point of visiting with him in his office for several days. As he has many commitments, both professional and personal, his schedule is bananas. When I asked him how he kept his various responsibilities separate, as in containers, he smiled and said, “it all goes together”. What he meant was that his wonderful, busy, sometimes messy life, is one. He didn’t even think to partition things off.
This past week, the Church celebrated Edith Stein who once said, “For those blessed souls who have entered into the unity of life with God, everything is one: rest and activity, looking and acting, silence and speaking, listening and communicating, surrender in loving acceptance and an outpouring of love in grateful songs of praise.” (Edith Stein, The Hidden Life – The Prayer of the Church)
I still remember the first time I read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and its core principles still resonate today. Great books are like that.
Through a board assignment, I got to know Pat well, even to the point of visiting with him in his office for several days. As he has many commitments, both professional and personal, his schedule is bananas. When I asked him how he kept his various responsibilities separate, as in containers, he smiled and said, “it all goes together”. What he meant was that his wonderful, busy, sometimes messy life, is one. He didn’t even think to partition things off.
This past week, the Church celebrated Edith Stein who once said, “For those blessed souls who have entered into the unity of life with God, everything is one: rest and activity, looking and acting, silence and speaking, listening and communicating, surrender in loving acceptance and an outpouring of love in grateful songs of praise.” (Edith Stein, The Hidden Life – The Prayer of the Church)
This is holiness- a unity of life which seeks to integrate the prayerful with the working, the communal with the personal.