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Summary: Dysfunctions
Review: This books was interesting to me as I am part of a seven member team that suffers at times from inaction. This pointed out things that could help me in the future.
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Summary: Insight Made Easy
Review: In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni attracts and captures your attention with his intriguing business story. Before going into thorough details of the five dysfunctions, Lencioni tells the story of a fictitious executive team working to revive a technology company near Silicone Valley. The characters are as realistic as can be and extremely easy to relate to. The story is quite simple to understand and keeps a quick pace. Typically, I have found educational books to drag on and only share stories that few people could relate with. However, this book leads readers through a reasonable, professional journey. The dysfunctions are practical and truthful. Often teams and groups feel that they have all of the possible resources necessary in attaining and mastering their goals, when in fact, they have a plethora of various hidden problems holding them back. Lencioni breaks apart each of these difficulties and explains how it will deny the team of their full potential. I felt that Lencioni's method of applying knowledge prior to teaching a lesson was much more effective than the traditional method of teaching then applying. When the author is finally "teaching" the lessons towards the end of the book, it seems as if you have already learned the information. Patrick Lencioni also provides a useful team assessment and a thoroughly detailed model of the dysfunctions. Insightful suggestions on overcoming the dysfunctions are included as well. Overall, this short, quick book is packed full of invaluable knowledge that can be applied to teams at all levels.
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Summary: Good Parabole
Review: This book will orientate you the things you have to deal when you are in power position, however I think this is an Introductory book of the art of relationships. Most people would agree that the book is a little superficial and is not very good guide for pros. I will recomended to beginers in management.
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Summary: What does he have against Marketing?
Review: As a marketing exec, I find it pretty tough to stomach Lencioni's not so thinly veiled hatred toward marketing. In this and "Five Temptations...," marketing personnel are portrayed as negative influences on the team. In this story, the marketing exec even is fired without due cause. When this book was assigned to our "team" they left the book discussion with hatred for my department, as opposed to a renewed spirit of teamwork. It did more harm than good.
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Summary: Outstanding Read
Review: This was a phenomenal book. I only read it for a paper I had to do for school but I ended up loving it. This book not only helps you to get a better understanding of how to overcome problems in a team, but was also very interesting to read. Once I started it, I was not able to put it back down until the very last page. The fable that was used in order to illustrate the key points was very well written and it kept my attention till the end of the story. I am certainly looking forward to reading "The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive" which was written by the same author.
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Summary: Truly and Epiphany
Review: I work in an environment that should have this book plastered all over the doors, walls, and ceilings anywhere that managers meet. Dysfunctional is a not a good enough word to describe the place, t's more like "toxic".
However I am a manager, and I like to look at the solution rather than focus solely on the problem, and I see where we went wrong, or where we go wrong everyday. This book makes me recognize my role, both good and bad in contributing to the toxic environment in which I work: I don't hold anyone accountable, and I allow unacceptable behavior go un-checked. and from time-to-time I wallow in victimization which is just as bad as victimizing or rolling my eyes, or not participating in the process. If you are not a part of the solution then you are part of the problem.
Every manager at every level, in every business should read tnis book twice, and then sit down and make happen what Kathryn made happen at DecisionTech.
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Summary: Truly an Epiphany
Review: I work in an environment that should have this book plastered all over the doors, walls, and ceilings; anywhere those managers meet. Dysfunctional is a not a good enough word to describe the place, it's more like "toxic". However, I am a manager there, and I like to look at the solution rather than focus solely on the problem. And after reading this book I see where we went wrong, or where we go wrong everyday. This book helps me to recognize my role, both good and bad, in contributing to the toxic environment in which I work: I don't hold anyone accountable, I allow unacceptable behavior to go un-checked, and from time-to-time I wallow in victimization, that I've learned is just as bad as victimizing or rolling my eyes, or not participating in the process. If you are not a part of the solution then you are part of the problem. Every manager at every level, in every business should read this book twice, and then sit down and make happen what Kathryn made happen at DecisionTech.
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Summary: Perhaps Lencioni's best book, superb teamwork wisdom
Review: Great teamwork represents tremendously valuable organizational capital. We all know of groups of excellent individuals who seem unable to work as an effective team. Using the same approach as in his last book, Patrick Lencioni again does a superb job of conveying the elements of potent teams. Most of the book consists of a story or "fable" about a high-tech company full of top performers who are utterly failing to function as a team. A new CEO is brought in from a different background with the challenging task of melding them into a unit. The story format functions well in conveying the ideas in an engaging, clear, and well-illustrated manner. Following the story, an overview of the model presents the ideas in abstraction for quick reference and for wide application. The five dysfunctions-absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results-seem simple. And they are, yet implementing them, as Lencioni and his fictional CEO emphasize, will always be difficult. Lencioni's overview provides some productive ways of applying the model. Almost anyone who works in a team can benefit from this book. The pleasure of reading it will be soothing in the face of the continuing struggles of team-building-struggles which must be embraced and not avoided.
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Summary: Very practical and insightful!
Review: This is a genuinely significant book for anyone who works in a team environment, whether at work, in sports, in the community, at home, etc. Of all the business books I have read on team building, "Five Dysfunctions" stands at the top of the pack. The strength of this book lies in the fact that it gets at the ROOTS of team failure. Anyone who has been forced to go through corporate "team building" sessions and sing with their fellow co-workers knows that it is an approach that doesn't work! The principles presented in "Five Dysfunctions" are solid and will get results.The organization of "Five Dysfunctions" is as follows. The bulk of the book comprises of an extended fictitious example of a dysfunctional group, and slowly works through the underlying principles. These principles are then succinctly presented in the last few pages of the book, along with further analysis and suggestions on implementation. This organization allows the principles to slowly sink in through the book, but then gives the reader a very focused section the use for later reference and review. A great strength of the book is that it avoids the all-too-frequent tendency of creating tension and then resolving it more quickly than would happen in real life. Reading the story gives you a sense of the effort needed to work through the dysfunctions of a team. The tools are presented to the reader, but without the illusion of a quick fix. Rather, "Five Dysfunctions" gives a simple message that inspires, energizes, and creates a vision of hope for how thing could be in a team. One "a-ha" experience I had while reading this book is that some of the teams I have been on - teams where we all got along just fine - shared at least some of the five dysfunctions which made them less than effective. While these teams were quite accomplished at the superficial types of team building activities that are so popular, we avoided the core issues that Lencioni discusses in his book. This book is one that I will review often, and recommend to anyone.
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Summary: very good presentations on managerial teams
Review: I listened to the unabridged Audible version and would recommend this to all managers trying to establish a cohesive team, especially a team of managers and leaders. The first part of this book is an engaging novel about a new CEO taking on a diverse executive management team. The second part of this book is a discourse on the theory and practice of the concepts in the novel. I could have used more discussion of the how-to's in the second part, but still extracted much insight from both segments of the book.
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