The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three

Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable

by Patrick Lencioni
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A Final Thought—Beyond Work Teams

Over the past twenty years, it has become clear to me that humility, hunger, and people smarts have relevance outside of the workplace. A
humble, hungry, and smart spouse, parent, friend, or neighbor is going to be a more effective, inspiring, and attractive person—one that draws
others to them and serves others better.
But I must admit that apart from the other two virtues, humility stands alone. It is, indeed, the greatest of all virtues and the antithesis of pride,
which is the root of all sin, according to the Bible. The most compelling example of humility in the history of mankind can be found in Christ, who
humbled himself to share in our humanity. He attracted people of all kinds when he walked the earth, and continues to do so today, providing
an example of humility that is as powerful as it is countercultural.
And so, it is my hope that readers of this book will take something else away with them and apply it in their lives: an appreciation for the true
gift that it is to be humble and the divine origins of that virtue.

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