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

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Perhaps Lencioni's best book, superb teamwork wisdom
(Austin, TX USA) January 2, 2003 - 5.0/5 stars

Great teamwork represents tremendously valuable organizational capital. We all know of groups of excellent individuals who seem unable to work as an effective team.

Using the same approach as in his last book, Patrick Lencioni again does a superb job of conveying the elements of potent teams.

Most of the book consists of a story or "fable" about a high-tech company full of top performers who are utterly failing to function as a team.

A new CEO is brought in from a different background with the challenging task of melding them into a unit.

The story format functions well in conveying the ideas in an engaging, clear, and well-illustrated manner.

Following the story, an overview of the model presents the ideas in abstraction for quick reference and for wide application.

The five dysfunctions-absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results-seem simple.

And they are, yet implementing them, as Lencioni and his fictional CEO emphasize, will always be difficult.

Lencioni's overview provides some productive ways of applying the model. Almost anyone who works in a team can benefit from this book.

The pleasure of reading it will be soothing in the face of the continuing struggles of team-building-struggles which must be embraced and not avoided.

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

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8.Truly and Epiphany
(Houston, TX USA) January 11, 2003 - 5.0/5 stars
I work in an environment that should have this book plastered all over the doors, walls, and ceilings anywhere that managers meet. Dysfunctional is a not a good enough word to describe the place, t's more... read full review
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9.Perhaps Lencioni's best book, superb teamwork wisdom
(Austin, TX USA) January 2, 2003 - 5.0/5 stars
Great teamwork represents tremendously valuable organizational capital. We all know of groups of excellent individuals who seem unable to work as an effective team. Using the same approach as in his last book,... read full review
10.Very practical and insightful!
(Appleton, WI United States) December 26, 2002 - 5.0/5 stars
This is a genuinely significant book for anyone who works in a team environment, whether at work, in sports, in the community, at home, etc. Of all the business books I have read on team building, "Five Dysfunctions" stands... read full review



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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni
 Amazon.com
Once again using an astutely written fictional tale to unambiguously but painlessly deliver some hard truths about critical business procedures, Patrick Lencioni targets group behavior in the final entry of his trilogy... read full editorial
 From Booklist
The final installment in a trilogy that includes The Five Temptations of a CEO (1998) and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive (2000), this fictional story demonstrates how a new CEO reforms a dysfunctional... read full editorial
 From the Back Cover
Praise for Patrick Lencioni "A gripping analysis of what makes teams work effectively. This fine work is a must-read for any leader that has come to grips with the fact that no one makes progress–much... read full editorial




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