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Summary of The Ideal Team Player: by Patrick Lencioni | Includes Analysis
Patrick Lencioni’s The Ideal Team How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues posits that in order to succeed—especially in a work environment—one must be a team player. Business leaders must be able to identify and hire team players to secure the best possible advantage over their competitors and leverage all the benefits of teamwork. Ideal team players share three core They are hungry, humble, and smart. To illustrate the ideal team player model in practice, Lencioni offers the hypothetical example of Valley Builders, a construction firm in Napa. Using this extended hypothetical as referent, Lencioni illustrates the components of the ideal team and explains how to apply them. Valley Builders was founded some 30 years ago by Bob Shanley. On the advice of his doctor, Shanley is retiring, but at a critical the firm has just inked deals on its two biggest jobs to date... · Overview of the Book · Important People · Key Takeaways · Analysis of Key Takeaways With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.
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Published June 28, 2016
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July 1, 2016
Success in any endeavor requires an individual to be a team player. Leaders must not only be able to identify and hire team players, but help current employees become productive members of teams. The three essential traits of effective team players are hunger, humility, and smartness, and while a good team player must have all three, the most important trait is humility.
Summary of The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni by Instaread is an in depth analysis of a book that outlines how an organization goes about developing teams for success. This brief analysis can be read in 15 – 20 minutes and it provides an excellent overview of the book to help readers make an informed purchase decision.
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Summary of The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni by Instaread is an in depth analysis of a book that outlines how an organization goes about developing teams for success. This brief analysis can be read in 15 – 20 minutes and it provides an excellent overview of the book to help readers make an informed purchase decision.
I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased review.
July 26, 2022
Great read
Great read and informative. Enjoyed the analysis and information. The author wrote the book to be digested and learn the principles.
Great read and informative. Enjoyed the analysis and information. The author wrote the book to be digested and learn the principles.
July 4, 2016
Given the tremendous complexity of human behavior and interactions in professional environments, any reduction to a small set of characteristics is a dubious action. Lencioni reduces the number of key traits of an ideal (not merely good) team player own to three and in a page out of his admitted religious faith, calls them virtues. The three “essential” traits are being humble, smart and hungry.
There is no question that being able to work within groups is a key aspect of organizational success. However, and this is mentioned in the summary, these traits can also be detrimental if not possessed in the proper dosage. Key takeaway three is, “Ideal team players have each of the three virtues in roughly equal measure.” In other words, the ideal person not only has these three traits, but all balanced in the proper way.
Yet, this is somewhat contradicted by key takeaway four, “Of the three virtues, humility is the most important.” It reminds me of the Orwellian statement, “Some are more equal than others.” If all three should be in equal measure, then how is it possible that one is more important than the other? The answer to this question is found in the text of the takeaway, where there is a extended reference to religion.
Key takeaway six deals with misplaced hunger, “Hunger is detrimental to the team when it is exclusively self-interested or when taken to an extreme.” Key take away seven deals with misplaced intelligence, “Smart people don’t always use their social intelligence for the benefit of the group.” Establishing the further qualification that the three virtues also have to appear in the proper form.
People do not fit into molds that we attempt to make for them, they are what they are. Professional interactions are very complex and success is often achieved in ways that were unexpected in the sense that a team that appears to be made from disparate individuals gells and achieves great things. Lencioni tries to simplify this down to a few key points and fails, creating a book that uses religion to argue for ways people should be hired and developed.
The author of the summary does little, if any, questioning of the thesis put forward by Lencioni, despite there being a lot of room to do so.
This book was made available for free for review purposes.
There is no question that being able to work within groups is a key aspect of organizational success. However, and this is mentioned in the summary, these traits can also be detrimental if not possessed in the proper dosage. Key takeaway three is, “Ideal team players have each of the three virtues in roughly equal measure.” In other words, the ideal person not only has these three traits, but all balanced in the proper way.
Yet, this is somewhat contradicted by key takeaway four, “Of the three virtues, humility is the most important.” It reminds me of the Orwellian statement, “Some are more equal than others.” If all three should be in equal measure, then how is it possible that one is more important than the other? The answer to this question is found in the text of the takeaway, where there is a extended reference to religion.
Key takeaway six deals with misplaced hunger, “Hunger is detrimental to the team when it is exclusively self-interested or when taken to an extreme.” Key take away seven deals with misplaced intelligence, “Smart people don’t always use their social intelligence for the benefit of the group.” Establishing the further qualification that the three virtues also have to appear in the proper form.
People do not fit into molds that we attempt to make for them, they are what they are. Professional interactions are very complex and success is often achieved in ways that were unexpected in the sense that a team that appears to be made from disparate individuals gells and achieves great things. Lencioni tries to simplify this down to a few key points and fails, creating a book that uses religion to argue for ways people should be hired and developed.
The author of the summary does little, if any, questioning of the thesis put forward by Lencioni, despite there being a lot of room to do so.
This book was made available for free for review purposes.
August 27, 2016
Been listening to these summaries rather than listening to the whole book again.
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