Have you read--not just heard of but read--any books by Patrick Lencioni? If so, what's your opinion?

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) July 6th, 2011

Patrick Lencioni’s books include the best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Told as a fable of business life, it exposes counterproductive behaviors in the workplace and explains what must happen for a group to work effectively as a team.

If you’ve read any of his books and have opinions about them, I’m interested. Please share.

I’m especially interested in knowing if you our your managers at work have ever been assigned a book of his to read and whether you think it made any difference.

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Yes, the leadership team (principals, coaches, grade level lead teachers) in my school district was assigned The Five Dysfunctions of a Team several years ago. In my opinion it was not a good match for a school district, which is distinctly different from a typical business in many ways. Reading the book generated a few interesting discussions, but most of the time we were trying to stretch it to fit our situations.

That said, it was written in an engaging way and was a quick read. If it had fit our structural model better, it probably would have been fairly helpful.

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