The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
By Patrick Lencioni
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Editorial review
Lencioni packs more about why teams fail into one short business fable than most management textbooks deliver in a thousand pages. The five dysfunctions are easy to remember, brutally diagnostic, and almost impossible to forget once you have seen them in your own organization.
AI-distilled summary
Through a fictional executive team in crisis, the book lays out a hierarchy of team dysfunction — from absence of trust to inattention to results — and offers a clear map for moving an unhealthy team toward genuine performance.
Key takeaways
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Teams do not fail at strategy; they fail at trust.
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Conflict avoided becomes commitment that is never made.
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Without commitment, there can be no real accountability.
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Politeness is often the enemy of high performance.
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Healthy teams choose collective results over individual reputation.