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Adam Lane Smith and Patrick Lencioni discuss how the principles of team dynamics apply to marriage.

Your marriage is a team. Most people are running it like a dysfunctional one and have no idea why nothing is working. Adam Lane Smith, The Attachment Specialist, sits down with Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and one of the world's leading experts on organizational health, to break down what makes teams fall apart, why the same dysfunctions destroying companies are destroying marriages, and what it actually takes to build real trust, real loyalty, and a relationship that functions like a winning team. This is not a business conversation. It is an attachment science and leadership psychology breakdown of why the skills that build great organizations are the exact same ones that build great families. What you will learn in this video: 1- Why trust is the single greatest competitive advantage in business and in marriage and why most people never build it2- Why vulnerability is not weakness and what it actually unlocks biochemically in the people around you3- Why the five dysfunctions of a team show up identically in marriage and what to do about each one4- What Working Genius is and why understanding yours and your partner's changes everything overnight5…

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Host: Adam Lane Smith

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