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You will see an uncanny resemblance of the characters in the fable, to the people in your own company. What a great book. Informative, engaging and a quick read. I'm a consultant specializing in leadership development at the management level. This is a must read for anyone who works on a team in corporate America. For the corporate trainers who might read this review, there is a very good program that Lencioni developed to help you present this material in your company. Jean Kelley
The book is a quick read and easy to follow. The lessons learned are important ones to consider from a management perspective. The author makes his points and supports them with a somewhat realistic story in support of those points.
(If you've ever read the blog "how to write badly well" you can imagine easily what I mean.).If you're looking to be parroted back the same psychobabble you can pick up from any of hundreds of leadership books, the author is happy to sell you his version and label it as the one true way. After reading this book as an assignment for work I very badly wanted my three hours back. While there are interesting quotes and ideas here and there this book contains nothing unique or special to set it apart from any other and certainly isn't an end-all-be-all leadership guide by any stretch. The author could use a community-college level writing course, both for creative writing and for grammar in general.The description says "begins with a story" where it should say "is a story". I did enjoy the idea of using a fable this way, but I quickly lost hope due to writing so bad it had me audibly groaning. Good for a couple hours amused groaning with moments of inspiration.In short, a few good diamonds, a lot of rough. Absolutely not worth your money or especially time.
What a wonderful fable about building extraordinary teams. Lack of Commitment. Avoidance of Accountability. Absence of Trust. Inattention to Results. Team members lack confidence in each others abilities and intentions.2. A quick read on the surface, there are some golden nuggets of ideas to help leaders rescue their teams from the morass of dysfuction:1. Teams are unable to make clear and timely decisions and move forward with complete buy-in from every member of the team, even those who voted against the decision.4.
Fear of Conflict. Teams avoid conflict and are unwilling to discuss and resolve issues to produce the best possible solution in the shortest period of time.3. Unwillingness of team membes to call their peers on performance or behaviors that might hurt the team.5. Tendency of members to care about someting other than the collective goals of the group.If your team has one of these dysfunctions, your team may want to read this book.
Once they are on board, they should make it required reading for their entire team. This should be required reading for anybody holding a leadership position. This goes for managers, supervisors, and senior leadership. I heard Patrick Lencioni give an hour talk on this subject, and it definitely made me want to read the book. Also, all teams should do the self-evaluation included, and then take action based to correct their dysfunctional behaviors.
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