I found the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team very interesting. I have never really set down and thought about dysfunctions of a business or a team for that manner. This really hit home to me because as I kept reading I found that I had seen some of the dysfunctions that the book talks about in my own personal work experience. After reading this book I know that I will be able to recognize theses dysfunctions in other companies that I am a part of. I really liked how easy it was to follow what
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The Highlights and Themes: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team running one group for six months or longer seems quite exorbitant! The theme of this book was based on an organizational approach to effective team building skills. The fable began by giving a brief background of the cooperation‚ DecisionTech‚ Inc. which was what this story was centered around. There was a new CEO‚ of the corporation‚ Kathryn‚ and her main task was to create effective teamwork among her staff who were the key leaders
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Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team 4-Mat Book Review A 4-MAT BOOK REVIEW SUBMITTED TO DR. DEBBIE WARREN IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE CLED 610 LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BY DURHAM‚ NORTH CAROLINA SUNDAY‚ NOVEMBER 20‚ 2011 ABSTRACT In order to be an effective team you must accomplish your set goals. To achieve this task a team must first discover and overcome the five dysfunctions of a team. According to Lencioni (2005)‚ “Dysfunction #1 Is the Absence
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Summary The majority of Patrick Lencioni’s work The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a fictionalized account of a very typical management challenge. The fictitous company is DecisionTech‚ a 150 person software start-up in Silicon Valley. The company‚ thanks to the efforts of Jeff the company’s firstCEO‚ is well funded and staffed with top level executives. However‚ the company is lagging behind several competitors and the board has replaced Jeff with Kathryn. Kathryn immediately begins a careful
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Working in Teams Reflection After reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Pat Lencioni‚ discussing the function of effective teams in class‚ and completing various team building exercises‚ I have developed a much better understanding of the importance of a proper team in a business setting and how good team work can produce more efficient and productive results. Having played a variety of team sports throughout my life‚ I saw a lot of parallels throughout the class work on team building between
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In order for healthcare providers to deliver the best outcomes to patients‚ it is essential for providers to be able to work as a team. An individual is not able to provide the quality of care that a patient needs on his or her own. Treating patients is becoming more complicated and time consuming. For example‚ a patient comes into the Emergency Room and is unresponsive and unable to breath. The physician on call determined that the patient needs to incubated and placed on a ventilator. That physician
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team‚ by Patrick Lencioni is a fable about an up and coming company called Decision Tech. Decision Tech is a technology company which despite having a very talented executive team‚ has continuous declining staff moral‚ a low customer base‚ and inadequate profit margins. Because of the lack of progress the chairman of Decision Tech decided to hire Kathryn Petersen to be the new CEO. Kathryn was given two goals‚ the first was to determine the cause for Decision Tech to
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Lencioni’s "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" lists five dysfunctions that can appear within a team. These include items like absence of trust and inattention to results. If any of the five dysfunctions is allowed to spread throughout a group‚ it could lead to the group deteriorating.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Paper The book‚ “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”‚ is a leadership fable by Patrick Lencioni. Lencioni’s book is a New York Times bestseller that helps to not only identify the five dysfunctions that a team may face‚ but also to provide advice on how to deal with each of these dysfunctions. Lencioni uses a pyramid structure to help showcase each of the five dysfunctions and where they each would be on the pyramid. The first dysfunction of a team that Lencioni
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In Patric Lencioni’s book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team he talks about five key reasons teams often fail to work together‚ and ways to overcome these problems. The five dysfunctions include teams that do not trust each other‚ do not engage in productive conflict‚ can not commit to decisions‚ do not hold each other accountable‚ and teams do not focus on collective goals. These five dysfunctions are all linked together‚ and if your team becomes a victim of one the other four are soon to follow.
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