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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

A leadership fable about how trust, conflict, commitment, accountability and collective results shape team performance.

Key takeaways

  1. Trust enables productive conflict
  2. Commitment needs clarity
  3. Peer accountability strengthens results

How to apply it in your business

  1. Run a team trust and conflict diagnostic
  2. End meetings with explicit decisions and owners
  3. Review shared outcomes over functional wins

About the author

Patrick Lencioni is an organizational consultant and author focused on team effectiveness.

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