The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

by Patrick Lencioni

“Let me assure you that from now on, every staff meeting we have will be loaded with conflict. And they won’t be boring. And if there is nothing worth debating, then we won’t have a meeting.

“If everything is important, then nothing is.

I just think that when we go back to work, it’s going to be easy to slip back into the same stuff we’ve been struggling with for the past couple years. And as painful as it’s been for me to sit here for the past few days and realize how unsuccessful I’ve been in making us work like a team, we have a long way to go yet.