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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

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ISBN: 978-0-470-89386-9

June 2010

Jossey-Bass

256 pages

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Praise for The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

"The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been my playbook for developing our staff and locker room culture for the last decade. The book is a classic—it covers all the real stuff that drives productive teams that many of us are usually too uncomfortable to address."
Erik Spoelstra, Head Coach, Miami Heat

"I have watched this book become the foundational source on teamwork within our company, and in just about every other organization I know. It's hard to imagine the world of work without The Five Dysfunctions of a Team."
Elizabeth Bryant, SVP of People, Learning & Development, Southwest Airlines

"Patrick Lencioni's classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, is one of the most helpful organizational leadership books of all time. These principles greatly influenced my personal and foundational leadership strategy. This is a book I've revisited many times and learn more each time I read it. Get a copy for yourself and everyone on your team."
Craig Groeschel, Founding Pastor of Life.Church and New York Times best-selling author

"The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has stood the test of time, because practicing leaders—those who must get things done through the power of teams—find its insights timeless, incisive, and useful."
Jim Collins, author, Good to Great, co-author, Built to Last

About the Author

PATRICK M. LENCIONI is the pioneer of the organizational health movement and the author of 13 best-selling books, including The Advantage, The Ideal Team Player, and The Six Types of Working Genius. For the past 25 years, Pat and his firm, The Table Group, have provided leaders with products and services to make their organizations more effective, their teams more cohesive, and their employees more fulfilled. Fascinated with the nature of jobs since his youth, he believes that one of the best ways to impact culture and society is through greater engagement and dignity at work.

To learn more about Patrick and The Table Group, please visit www.tablegroup.com.

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"Every manager and executive will recognize themselves somewhere in this book. Lencioni distills the problems that keep even the most talented teams from realizing their full potential. Even more important, he shows—in prose that is crisp, clear, and fun to read—how to solve them."
Geoffrey A. Moore, Chairman, The Chasm Group and Author of Crossing the Chasm; Inside the Tornado and Living on the Fault Line

"This book is as thought-provoking, insightful, and rich with ideas as The Five Temptations of a CEO. I've used it with my team and it works!"
Phillip Hildebrand, executive vice president and Chief Distribution Officer, New York Life Insurance Company

"Compelling and incisive, this will become the definitive guide on how to build and manage successful teams."
Jean Kovacs, president and CEO, Commergent Techonologies

"As compelling, readable and practical as his other books. I'm sure this will be another business classic."
Richard Carr, president and CEO, TEC International