The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition
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4.4 • 64 Ratings
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- $29.99
Publisher Description
The New York Times best-selling team leadership handbook for modern executives, managers, and organizations
After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if 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.
For twenty years, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been engaging audiences with a page-turning, realistic fable that follows the travails of Kathryn Petersen, DecisionTech’s CEO, as she faces the ultimate leadership crisis. She must unite a team in such disarray that it threatens to derail the entire company.
Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle. He offers a powerful model and step-by-step guide for overcoming those dysfunctions and getting every one rowing in the same direction.
Today, the lessons in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team are more relevant than ever. This special anniversary edition celebrates one of the best-selling business books of all time with a new foreword from the author that reflects on its legacy and lessons.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In keeping with the parable style, Lencioni (The Five Temptations of a CEO) begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results). Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group. 100,000 first printing.
Customer Reviews
Mirrors real corporate life - Immediately applicable
The choice to bring the dysfunctions to life in the form of a story helped me tie it together concretely with my real day to day work life.
Thinking about my team dynamic, how we measure ourselves, why some of us are so quiet/compliant in team meetings, I am excited to shake things up at work and apply what I’ve learned!
Excellent Read
Loved this book! Great read. Extremely helpful and able to apply straight away.
Five dysfunctions of team, a leadership fable
The ad for the book is misleading ~ it’s only 79 pages long, not the 200 + advertised. Even the thumbnail picture deceives with page numbers in the hundreds.
I would not have bought the book at this price if it had been factually correct in the brief.