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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

A Leadership Fable

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Written by: Patrick Lencioni, Patrick Lencioni - introduction
Narrated by: Charles Stransky
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After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before.

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 bestselling 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. Education Entrepreneurship Management & Leadership Personal Success Small Business & Entrepreneurship Business Management Leadership Inspiring Business Management
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Enjoyed the situational approach. Made it very easy to follow along while driving and compare to real life scenarios.

Great listen

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The story was really well made for us to understand the 5 dysfunctions of a team. all the example used in this are relatable to personal experience. I will recommend this book to many co-workers. I like that even at CEO/VPs level, they realized that spending time on creating a good team is better than let everyone do their own piece of business on their own

very well explained

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The first half of the book is a story about a fictional company with certain characters in it. The second half of the book explores the actual five disfunctions of a team and as a leader, how you can deal with them.

Good book, worth a read.

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Short but a wonderful job done trying to communicate a point using a fictional story. Albeit fictional, the story is extremely relatable and the tensions in the story is fully palpable and completely believable. Highly recommend, definitely will learn something from this story despite the conciseness of the book.

Amazingly relatable

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being in a story from, it is very easy to understand the concepts and how they can effect a team and how to overcome them. so much easier to absorb than typical team leadership books

simplicity of learning concepts

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