Patrick Lencioni (born c. 1965) is an American writer of books on business management, particularly in relation to team management. He is best known as the author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, a popular business fable that explores work team dynamics and offers solutions to help teams perform better.
In addition to Five Dysfunctions of a Team, he has written nine other business books: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business; Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team; Death by Meeting; Silos, Politics and Turf Wars; The Five Temptations of a CEO; The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive; The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, Getting Naked, and The Ideal Team Player. He has also applied his management techniques to families in The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family.
Lencioni beskæftiger sig i denne bog med den ideelle teamplayer og vedkommendes egenskaber.
Lencioni fortæller historien om Jeff Shanley, der desperat forsøger at redde sin onkels virksomhed ved at genskabe den team-ånd, der tidligere fik virksomheden til at blomstre. Jeff identificerer, hvad en god teamplayer gør, og han skal nu ansætte og udvikle medarbejderne ud fra de værdier.
Efter historien om Jeff præsenterer Lencioni en praktisk model til at identificere, ansætte og udvikle de rigtige personer på holdet. En teamplayer er ydmyg, sulten og smart. Ydmyg fordi det modsatte, selvcentreret, egoistisk osv., ødelægger holdet. Sulten fordi sultne mennesker sjældent skal drives frem af en leder, de tager bolden og skaber god energi på holdet. Smart fordi smarte mennesker samarbejder, inddrage og lytter, de ved, at det er holdet, der leverer, ikke individet.
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