To create a functioning team, build trust, willingness to confront, commitment, accountability and focus. Here's how.
In this summary you will learn
- Fundamental principles about teamwork
- How to apply them to managing teams
- How to avoid the five mistakes that undermine teams
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Why you should read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni offers a satisfactory fable about an executive wrestling to take hold of a company and create a smoothly functioning executive team. The narrative moves right along as he addresses the problem of feckless teamwork with the fictitious Decision Tech company as a test case. The novel is interesting, and you can read through it easily, getting to know the characters and participating in their business decisions. However, if you just want to learn about better teamwork quickly and leave, skim to the final chapters. Here, the author outlines a detailed model for diagnosing the five dysfunctions of a team and provides exercises and techniques to ameliorate those dysfunctions. The advice is complete and concrete. getAbstract.com recommends the meat and potatoes diagnosis and solutions as well as the cake and ice cream story, but how much narrative you want to read may depend on what shape your team is in when you start, as well as on your taste for tales.
About the Author
Patrick Lencioni is president of The Table Group, a San Francisco consultancy. He is the author of The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive and The Five Temptations of a CEO.
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March 29, 2012 Matt DunnGood abstract on the book and a nice tip to suggest the reader skips to the back chapter if they want the utilise the fundamentals rather than read through the fable. Although, I would suggest reading the entire book as it a relative and fluid story.
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