Patrick Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni is an educational story about teamwork. The book’s focus is to point out the major dysfunctions in businesses and organizations. In the organization the issues are established and the author presents the guidelines to overcome the five major dysfunctions to create a functioning team. The book starts out with an introduction of the author and how the idea for the book was established. The author then transitions into a fictional story he made up to help the reader understand the five dysfunctions of a team. The author states, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team begins with a story written in the context of a realistic but fictional organization. I have found that this allows readers to learn …show more content…
These themes are apparent throughout the entire story. The author provide solutions to enhance or fix these themes. The largest theme of the story is teamwork. Teamwork is the ultimate goal of the story. The author’s purpose for the book is to establish the problems within an business or organization and create solutions. The solution in this story is creating a functional and effective team. The goal of the story makes teamwork the major apparent theme throughout. The other themes, such as trust and conflict go hand in hand. Trust is a predominate theme through the story because there will never be a team without trust. The author repeatedly emphasizes the importance of trust in all organizations and relationships. Without trust, there cannot be a well functioning team. Another major theme in the story is conflict. These is a major theme within the five dysfunctions. Conflict is what harbors teamwork, this is further explained within the dysfunctions of a team pyramid. The book and themes within it are direct, understandable, and the concept is easy to grasp. I enjoyed that the book was transformed into a story to benefit the reader. The context of the story was extremely helpful, especially when directed at a business or a team. There are many aspects to teamwork that team members do not understand. This book allows the reader to understand and experience these issues through an interesting story, then allows them to implement change in their own