TY - BOOK AU - Lencioni,Patrick TI - The four obsessions of an extraordinary executive: a leadership fable SN - 0787954039 AV - HD38.2 .L46 2000 U1 - 658.4/09 21 PY - 2000/// CY - San Francisco PB - Jossey-Bass KW - Executives KW - Fiction KW - Leadership KW - Success in business KW - Administrative Personnel KW - Personnel Management KW - Fictional Works KW - Leidinggeven KW - gtt KW - fast KW - Didactic fiction KW - gsafd KW - Fables N1 - Introduction -- Part 1. Green's pain. The rival -- Reconnaissance -- Part 2. The history. Two CEOs -- Desperate epiphany -- Practice -- The gatekeeper -- Asleep at the gate -- Misorientation -- Hesitation -- Confrontation -- The virus -- Mending fences -- Off-sites -- Meadowood -- The day of reckoning -- 360� feedback -- Unraveling -- Cold water -- Moment of truth -- Part 3. Green's opportunity. Reacquaintance -- Contact -- Discipline one -- Discipline two -- Discipline three -- Discipline four -- The realization -- Part 4. The resolution. The decision -- White flag -- Afterword -- Organizational health : the model. Putting the disciplines into practice : a summary and self-assessment -- Acknowledgments -- About the author N2 - The author offers up another leadership fable. This time, his 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, the author 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 ER -