I found myself in various situations and couldn’t agree more with Patrick on his observations on leadership teams. Nevertheless, I’ll sum up what I learned in the next brief paragraphs. Patrick talks on his website more about the details of the model: Teamwork: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Patrick wraps his learnings from working with teams in this story and gives some advice at the end of the book on how to overcome the described dysfunctions. The fictive CEO Kathryn is one of the CEO’s you would want to work for – or even better – being such a role-model as a C-Level yourself. So, the fictional story is not that fictional after all. I could also see some parallels to some of my colleagues in leadership positions. The story is a great read and I could sympathize with various characters right from the beginning. The CFO, Jan, who is very carefully keeping the money of the company together and the COO, Nick, who was brought to the company to fix operations. The Chief of Customer Support, Carlos – one of the buddies of Mikey and a quite silent person. The CSO, JR with also a quite huge list of successes on sales side – always increased revenues quarter over quarter. The CTO, Martin, very strong opinionated person with a clear tech-nerdy attitude and among the founding team. The CMO, Mikey, a big-shot contributor with an incredible backlog of successes in the broader tech industry. Jeff, the former CEO and one of the founders – now looking after business development. There is Kathryn, a really experienced CEO coming from a totally different industry background. The book’ content wraps around a really great story around executives of a virtual tech company in the Silicon Valey finding their way from being a wild group of individuals towards a real team. I heard a lot about the book “The FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS of a TEAM” by Patrick Lencioni previously and found it on a list named “ The Best Company Culture Books To Read“.
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