The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Quotes

“conflict is productive”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“Building a team is hard”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“Moments of truth are best handled face-to-face P.30”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

“Well, some teams get paralyzed by their need for complete agreement, and their inability to move beyond debate.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Ken always says that his job is to create the best team possible, not to shepherd the careers of individual athletes.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“During the next two weeks I am going to be pretty intolerant of behavior that demonstrates an absence of trust, or a focus on individual ego. I will be encouraging conflict, driving for clear commitments, and expecting all of you to hold each other accountable. I will be calling out bad behavior when I see it, and I’d like to see you doing the same. We don’t have time to waste.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“The fact remains that teams, because they are made up of imperfect human beings, are inherently dysfunctional.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“No one seemed ready to offer an answer, so Kathryn quickly provided it for them. Just above absence of trust she wrote fear of conflict. “If we don’t trust one another, then we aren’t going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. And we’ll just continue to preserve a sense of artificial”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable