This is where I want to focus on for the rest of this blogpost. The second part of the book contains the theoretical discussion on the five dysfunctions, how they are related and possible ways to cope with them. But this story will definitely help me remember. I will not tell to much about the fable, you’ll enjoy it more reading it yourself. The fable describes the challenges of a new CEO who is hired to save a high-tech startup that was very popular, but after 2 years in its existence seems to fail to deliver, despite having the best possible and probably best paid executive team in Silicon Valley. The 5 dysfunctions are introduced in an easy to grasp manner and with clear motivation throughout the storyline. The cool thing is that the first part of book contains a fable, a fictitious story. Building a strong team remains difficult, but reading this book brought me so many good ideas I simply had to write something about it.

Some of what the book contains was already playing around in my head for a while, and probably in yours, but this book really helped to make underlying causes a lot more clear and explicit, like puzzle pieces falling into place. To quote again:īuilding a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. That’s why I spend much time trying to figure out on how to do this better, along the way stumbling upon this book. But, don’t you also experience that exceptional teamwork is as elusive as ever, despite all the attention it has received over the years? And whether you manage a large executive staff or department, coach an agile team or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improving, don’t you also experience that is hard to get to real teamwork? This is the starting quote of a great book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” from Patrick Lencioni, and is something I can really relate to. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare. 30 March 2016 Why did I have to write this blogpost?

The five dysfunctions of a team model