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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni

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Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
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Wonderful book!
(New York, NY) July 4, 2002 - 5.0/5 stars

The book is quick reading and if you've read Lencioni's other fables, the style will ring familiar. The short chapters end with foreshadowing that makes you want to read on and see what the team finally comes to learn.

His message is crisp and clear and while it is simple, really most management principles are. What is difficult in real world practice, is delivering on the ideas.

He provides good food for thought in "Kathryn", the company CEO, who strategically brings her team to their own understanding of why "working at teamwork" can be more important than closing deals and gathering market share.

In the final chapters he provides some good ideas for additional exercises companies can try to bring forth some of the same outcomes.

In today's economy, a lot of companies have downsized to the point where executive teams are carrying very heavy loads, while constantly looking over their shoulders to see when the next train might be coming.

We'd be wise to start looking at the impact of these changes on company productivity.
While one reviewer here suggested the mythical company used in the case example sounded too contrived, I saw in the myth several different companies I've worked for described to the detail!

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Patrick M. Lencioni

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3.	Simple & Excellent
	(SAN FRANCISCO, CA United States) July 21, 2002 - 5.0/5 stars
	This book is excellent. Lencioni does a superb job at making tangible the sometimes-elusive art of management and leadership. Having a finance / accounting background and now working in general management I always find... read full review

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4.	Wonderful book!
	(New York, NY) July 4, 2002 - 5.0/5 stars
	The book is quick reading and if you've read Lencioni's other fables, the style will ring familiar. The short chapters end with foreshadowing that makes you want to read on and see what the team finally comes to learn... read full review

5.	This book is excellent
	(SAN FRANCISCO, CA United States) July 24, 2002 - 5.0/5 stars
	This book is excellent. Lencioni does a superb job at making tangible the sometimes-elusive art of management and leadership. Having a finance / accounting background and now working in general management I always find... read full review

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni


	From Publishers Weekly
	In keeping with the parable style, Lencioni (The Five Temptations of a CEO) begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee... read full editorial

	Progress, Summer 2002
	"...is worth exploring..."

	Book Info
	Offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as Lencioni's first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. He reveals... read full editorial

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