Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators Author: Visit Amazon's Patrick Lencioni Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0787976377 | Format: EPUB
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“Lencioni is fast defining the next generation of leadership thinkers.”—Ken Blanchard, coauthor,
The One Minute Manager ä and
Full Steam AheadFrom the Back Cover
Based on the New York Times best-selling book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
"Lencioni is fast defining the next generation of leadership thinkers."
Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager™ and Full Steam Ahead
In the years following the publication of Patrick Lencioni's best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, fans have been clamoring for more information on how to implement the ideas outlined in the book.
In Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Lencioni offers more specific, practical guidance for overcoming the Five Dysfunctionsusing tools, exercises, assessments, and real-world examples. He examines questions that all teams must ask themselves: Are we really a team? How are we currently performing? Are we prepared to invest the time and energy required to be a great team?
Written concisely and to the point, this guide gives leaders, line managers, and consultants alike the tools they need to get their teams up and running quickly and effectively.
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- Paperback: 180 pages
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (March 10, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0787976377
- ISBN-13: 978-0787976378
- Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Lencioni begins the discussion concerning overcoming the five dysfunctions of a team by asking two questions that should be asked BEFORE any team building effort:
1. Are we really a team?
2. Are we ready for heavy lifting?
His definition of a team, "a relatively small number of people...that shares common goals as well as the rewards and responsibilities for achieving them" seems logical enough, but what I really liked was his overall attitude. He seemed to suggest that if your group isn't a team, well that's OK too, but regardless, be clear about who and what you are. The heavy lifting reference simply means that building a team, similar to any marriage or other worthwhile relationship, takes a considerable investment in time and emotional energy.
Dysfunction #1 is the absence of trust, so building trust is the key to overcoming this first dysfunction. Lencioni's definition of trust in one where vulnerability is paramount thus beginning to trust starts with showing vulnerability, usually by telling some personal history story that includes some important challenge that was overcome during childhood. The reasoning for this is based on something called the fundamental attribution error. Simply stated, this is the tendency to attribute (falsely) the negative behavior of others to their character while attributing our own negative behavior to the environment. In other words, I do bad things because of the situation I've been placed in, while you do bad things because you are a bad person. This personal story exercise helps individuals to understand each other at a more fundamental level by showing how each person became the individual that they are, at least in some small way.
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