by Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni uses a leadership fable to diagnose five interconnected failures that cripple teams: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results.
In this collection, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team references 1 other book and is cited by 7 other books.
It draws on Good to Great.
It’s picked up by Find Your Why, The Advantage and The Ideal Team Player and 4 others.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is widely cited as the foundational text on team health, with authors across leadership and management drawing on Lencioni's trust-conflict-commitment-accountability-results model as a diagnostic framework. Simon Sinek builds on it in Find Your Why, arguing that trust is the prerequisite for the vulnerable storytelling teams need, while Camille Fournier's The Manager's Path treats Lencioni's insight that dysfunction starts with absence of trust as essential reading for new tech leaders.
General Stanley McChrystal extends the framework to inter-team scale in Team of Teams, and Jocko Willink draws parallels in The Dichotomy of Leadership. The fable format makes it an easy, fast read, though some find it oversimplified for complex organisational dynamics -- but its five-layer model has become a shared language across industries.
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Lencioni references Collins on how dysfunction undermines strategy.
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Builds on Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions framework, noting that trust is the prerequisite for the vulnerable storytelling that surfaces a team's why
Synthesizes the trust-conflict-commitment-accountability-results model from Lencioni's own Five Dysfunctions as the foundation of Discipline 1, building a cohesive leadership team
Positioned by Lencioni as the individual-level companion to his own Five Dysfunctions of a Team, arguing that humble-hungry-smart people are the raw material that makes trust and productive conflict possible
Willink's discussion of balancing care for individuals against mission requirements parallels Lencioni's exploration of trust and accountability in team dynamics
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The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Winby Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Fournier's guidance on building trust and running effective one-on-ones reflects Lencioni's foundational insight that team dysfunction stems from absence of trust
Cited in
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Changeby Camille Fournier
McChrystal's shared consciousness model addresses the trust and communication breakdowns that Lencioni identifies as the root dysfunctions of teams, but at an inter-team scale
Cited in
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex Worldby General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell
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