The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series) |  | Author: Patrick Lencioni
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0787960756
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4036
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Publication Date: April 11, 2002
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Product Description
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech?s CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni?s utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight.
Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.
About the Author:
Patrick Lencioni is president of The Table Group, a San Francisco Bay Area management consulting firm, and author of the best-selling books The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive and The Five Temptations of a CEO. In addition to his work as an executive coach and consultant, Pat is a sought-after speaker. Prior to founding The Table Group, he worked at the management consulting firm Bain & Company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase, where he was vice president of organizational development. He is on numerous advisory boards and sits on the National Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. Over the years, Pat has worked with hundreds of executive teams and CEOs-all struggling, at one time or another, with the potential for dysfunction among their teams.
Amazon.com Review
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 of corporate fables. And like those preceding it, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is an entertaining, quick read filled with useful information that will prove easy to digest and implement. This time, Lencioni weaves his lessons around the story of a troubled Silicon Valley firm and its unexpected choice for a new CEO: an old-school manager who had retired from a traditional manufacturing company two years earlier at age 55. Showing exactly how existing personnel failed to function as a unit, and precisely how the new boss worked to reestablish that essential conduct, the book's first part colorfully illustrates the ways that teamwork can elude even the most dedicated individuals--and be restored by an insightful leader. A second part offers details on Lencioni's "five dysfunctions" (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results), along with a questionnaire for readers to use in evaluating their own teams and specifics to help them understand and overcome these common shortcomings. Like the author's previous books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, this is highly recommended. --Howard Rothman
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 Love the format / approach to the book July 27, 2010
Robert S. Tipton, Innovative Change Author (Colorado)
I have read this book three or four times by now, and have used it for years as a discussion starter with executive and leadership teams. I love the "right brain / left brain" approach that Mr. Lencioni uses to make his message approachable (fable / model). In fact, I liked his approach so much I incorporated it into my own book on innovative change, JUMP! - Get Unstuck.
I recommend "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" to everyone who is part of any organization -- for profit, non-profit, government, educational, personal, professional, etc. There's a great deal of wisdom here.
Insightful book July 26, 2010
KD (Kansas)
Quick read and very insightful. Shared with a colleague and she loved it also (sorry Amazon, should have made her buy her own).
A must read for corporate teams June 30, 2010
Jim S (Michigan)
First I have to say that I am very fond of Lencioni's fable approach. Telling something is a story form immediately draws the reader in. Stories are what we are used to reading from the time that we are children to adults - yet so many business books are tantamount to reading a college textbook. Often their principles are sound, the concepts are proven, but the delivery is so boring that there is little you can take away from it. But this book is different. Each character is unique within the book and oddly as Lencioni shares about the quirks of each persons personality, you begin to think of someone in the office place where you work that exemplifies that person. I like just about every book he has written. He's is a gifted an inspiring writer.
Outstanding June 27, 2010
Ryan D. Jones (Gilbert, Arizona United States)
This book changed the way I lead my team as a project manager and it also has changed what I look for in candidates I'm interviewing. Lastly, I now always ask in an interview, "What characteristics do you believe defines a well functioning team?" And every time I'm hoping they start with trust.
 Good - Not Great May 31, 2010
askCRM (Charlotte, NC)
This is a nice, easy, business book to read. It takes a complex subject and boils it down into a story format that you can read on a Saturday afternoon. However, it seems to oversimplify a few things. With that said, it was a good book to get me thinking and I recommend it to anyone who feels that their team may not be producing a result that is greater than the sum of the parts.
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