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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition Hardcover – Organizer, April 11, 2002
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The New York Times best-selling team leadership handbook for modern executives, managers, and organizations
After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before.
For twenty years, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been engaging audiences with a page-turning, realistic fable that follows the travails of Kathryn Petersen, DecisionTech’s CEO, as she faces the ultimate leadership crisis. She must unite a team in such disarray that it threatens to derail the entire company.
Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle. He offers a powerful model and step-by-step guide for overcoming those dysfunctions and getting every one rowing in the same direction.
Today, the lessons in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team are more relevant than ever. This special anniversary edition celebrates one of the best-selling business books of all time with a new foreword from the author that reflects on its legacy and lessons.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherJossey-Bass
- Publication dateApril 11, 2002
- Dimensions5.7 x 1 x 8.4 inches
- ISBN-100787960756
- ISBN-13978-0787960759
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Model

Like it or not, all teams are potentially dysfunctional. This is inevitable because they are made up of fallible, imperfect human beings. From the basketball coach to the executive suite, politics and confusion are more the rule than the exception. However, facing dysfunction and focusing on teamwork is particularly critical at the top of an organization because the executive team sets the tone for how all employees work with one another. Fortunately, there is hope. Counter to conventional wisdom, the causes of dysfunction are both identifiable and curable. The first step toward reducing politics and confusion within your team is to understand that there are five dysfunctions to contend with, and address each that applies, one by one.
DYSFUNCTION #1: ABSENCE OF TRUST
The fear of being vulnerable with team members prevents building of trust within the team.
DYSFUNCTION #2: FEAR OF CONFLICT
The desire to preserve artificial harmony stifles the occurrence of productive, ideological conflict.
DYSFUNCTION #3: LACK OF COMMITMENT
The lack of clarity or buy-in prevents team members from making decisions they will stick to.
DYSFUNCTION #4: AVOIDANCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort prevents team members from holding one another accountable for their behaviors and performance.
DYSFUNCTION #5: INATTENTION TO RESULTS
The pursuit of individual goals and personal status erodes the focus on collective success.
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In keeping with the parable style, Lencioni (The Five Temptations of a CEO) begins by telling the fable of woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results). Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.
Building a cohesive team is not complicated, declares Lencioni, president of his own management consulting firm and author of The Five Temptations of a CEO. Departing from the dry, theoretical writing of many management books, he presents his case in the context of a fictional organization, and in doing so succeeds at communicating his ideas. The story is about a female CEO who is hired to bring together a dysfunctional executive staff to work as a team in a company that just two years earlier had looked promising. The scenarios that follow are recognizable and can be applied anywhere teamwork is involved, whether it is a multinational company, a small department within a larger organization, or a sports team. The five dysfunctions discussed are absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results. At the end of the story, the main points are summarized, and clearly written suggestions and exercises are offered to help, bring about change. Concise and easy to follow, this book is recommended for academic and public libraries with management collections and for anyone who is a member of a team that needs improvement.
—Bellinda Wise, Nassau Community College Library, Garden City, NY (Library Journal, April 15, 2002)
"...there is a lot of good sense in this book...certainly offers some useful pointers..."
(Supply Management, 28 March 2002)
"...is worth exploring..." (Progress, Summer 2002)
"...an entertaining quick read filled with information easy to digest..."
(The Star Online, 12 August 2003)
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“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has stood the test of time, because practicing leaders—those who must get things done through the power of teams—find its insights timeless, incisive, and useful.”
—Jim Collins, author, Good to Great, and co-author, Built to Last
“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been my playbook for developing our staff and locker room culture for the last decade. The book is a classic—it covers all the real stuff that drives productive teams that many of us are usually too uncomfortable to address.”
—Erik Spoelstra, Head Coach, Miami Heat
“I have watched this book become the foundational source on teamwork within our company, and in just about every other organization I know. It’s hard to imagine the world of work without The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.”
—Elizabeth Bryant, SVP of People, Learning & Development, Southwest Airlines
“Patrick Lencioni’s classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, is one of the most helpful organizational leadership books of all time. These principles greatly influenced my personal and foundational leadership strategy. This is a book I’ve revisited many times and learn more each time I read it. Get a copy for yourself and everyone on your team.”
—Craig Groeschel, Founding Pastor of Life.Church and New York Times best-selling author
"Every manager and executive will recognize themselves somewhere in this book. Lencioni distills the problems that keep even the most talented teams from realizing their full potential. Even more important, he shows — in prose that is crisp, clear, and fun to read — how to solve them."
—Geoffrey A. Moore, Chairman Emeritus of The Chasm Institute, The Chasm Group, and TCG Advisors, and author, Crossing the Chasm and Zone to Win
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After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before.
For twenty years, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been engaging audiences with a page-turning, realistic fable that follows the travails of Kathryn Petersen, DecisionTech’s CEO, as she faces the ultimate leadership crisis. She must unite a team in such disarray that it threatens to derail the entire company.
Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle. He offers a powerful model and step-by-step guide for overcoming those dysfunctions and getting everyone rowing in the same direction.
Today, the lessons in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team are more relevant than ever. This special anniversary edition celebrates one of the best-selling business books of all time with a new foreword from the author that reflects on its legacy and lessons.
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Praise for The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been my playbook for developing our staff and locker room culture for the last decade. The book is a classic—it covers all the real stuff that drives productive teams that many of us are usually too uncomfortable to address.”
—Erik Spoelstra, Head Coach, Miami Heat
“I have watched this book become the foundational source on teamwork within our company, and in just about every other organization I know. It’s hard to imagine the world of work without The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.”
—Elizabeth Bryant, SVP of People, Learning & Development, Southwest Airlines
“Patrick Lencioni’s classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, is one of the most helpful organizational leadership books of all time. These principles greatly influenced my personal and foundational leadership strategy. This is a book I’ve revisited many times and learn more each time I read it. Get a copy for yourself and everyone on your team.”
—Craig Groeschel, Founding Pastor of Life.Church and New York Times best-selling author
“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has stood the test of time, because practicing leaders—those who must get things done through the power of teams—find its insights timeless, incisive, and useful.”
—Jim Collins, author, Good to Great, and co-author, Built to Last
About the Author
PATRICK M. LENCIONI is the pioneer of the organizational health movement and the author of 13 best-selling books, including The Advantage, The Ideal Team Player, and The Six Types of Working Genius. For the past 25 years, Pat and his firm, The Table Group, have provided leaders with products and services to make their organizations more effective, their teams more cohesive, and their employees more fulfilled. Fascinated with the nature of jobs since his youth, he believes that one of the best ways to impact culture and society is through greater engagement and dignity at work.
To learn more about Patrick and The Table Group, please visit www.tablegroup.com.
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- Publisher : Jossey-Bass
- Publication date : April 11, 2002
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0787960756
- ISBN-13 : 978-0787960759
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.7 x 1 x 8.4 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author

Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to helping leaders improve their organizations’ health since 1997. His principles have been embraced by leaders around the world and adopted by organizations of virtually every kind including multinational corporations, entrepreneurial ventures, professional sports teams, the military, nonprofits, schools, and churches.
Lencioni is the author of ten business books with over three million copies sold worldwide. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Bloomberg Businessweek, and USA Today.
Prior to founding The Table Group, Lencioni served on the executive team at Sybase, Inc. He started his career at Bain & Company and later worked at Oracle Corporation.
Lencioni lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their four sons.
To learn more about Patrick and The Table Group, please visit www.tablegroup.com.
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Customers find the book well-written and easy to read, appreciating how it helps think through team dynamics and effectively demonstrates steps to team effectiveness. Moreover, the book is entertaining, with one customer noting it's a fun workplace read, and customers find it easy to follow along and apply to their work life. However, the narrative length receives mixed feedback, with some finding the story too simplistic or cliche. Additionally, effectiveness receives mixed reviews, with some finding it not great.
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Customers find the book easy to read and well-written, with one customer noting that the topics are easy to digest.
"...This book is offers exceptional guidance in a framework of a wonderfully told story." Read more
"As your reading, you are progressing in a real time example. It is easy to read as well as having aha moments to your team and the examples used." Read more
"...What I really liked about this book was just how well written the story was so are immersed in the world of an executive team and see the tensions..." Read more
"Enjoyed reading this as a follow up to my company doing a ranking against the dysfunctions...." Read more
Customers find the book insightful, helping them think through team dynamics and effectively demonstrating steps to team effectiveness.
"...This book is offers exceptional guidance in a framework of a wonderfully told story." Read more
"...It does feel just a bit contrived to me. The situations are relate-able, but they feel just a little forced... like the situations are designed to..." Read more
"Packed with so much wisdom and thought provoking concepts while also being an easy/digestible read. Great for any leader of any size of team!" Read more
"...It is easy to read as well as having aha moments to your team and the examples used." Read more
Customers appreciate how the book brings real-life application, with examples that can be applied to various life situations.
"...that demonstrated the concepts and then at the end tied it back to practical application." Read more
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Customers appreciate the book's analysis capabilities, finding it an excellent tool for team assessment and identifying business pitfalls, with one customer noting its deductive approach and another mentioning its invaluable assessment and application points.
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"...lays out the model with some excellent suggestions for exercises, assessment tools, and tips for those leaders who haven't quite reached super-hero..." Read more
Customers find the book easy to follow and apply to their teams, with one customer specifically noting its straightforward approach to self-assessment and peer evaluation.
"...(the fictional story) actually makes the topics introduced easier to grasp and implement...." Read more
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Customers have mixed opinions about the effectiveness of the book, with some finding it not great and unhelpful, while one customer describes it as an easily consumable theory on team dysfunctions.
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"...a gist: a great team is focused on the achievement of a clear set of collective results, with a clear plan that they hold one another accountable to...." Read more
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Customers have mixed opinions about the narrative length of the book, with some appreciating the good fictional story and short chapters, while others find it too simplistic, cliche, and brief.
"...In this very, very short story, Kathryn manipulates her way around her team, figuring out how to push their buttons to get them to do what she wants...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2025This was one of the best management books I’ve read. What I appreciate most is the surfacing of the manager’s inner dialogue as she navigates the complicated process of turning a team around. Much of what separates an excellent leader from a poor leader when enacting major change management is what they do not do. Choosing when to allow situations to proceed without intervention and when it is necessary for them to direct the actions of others is far more difficult that one without such experience would assume. This book is offers exceptional guidance in a framework of a wonderfully told story.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2014This is a novel, not a reference book, but the storytelling works fairly well. Consequently, while it works okay for replicating the success in the story within your own team, if you happen across a situation that falls outside something they addressed in the story, you may be a bit lost in how best to deal with it. That's the nature of dealing with a novel instead of a direct implementation guide. On the plus side, it's a heck of a lot easier to read a story than a dry manual. :)
It does feel just a bit contrived to me. The situations are relate-able, but they feel just a little forced... like the situations are designed to fit the lessons, rather than being strictly based in reality. The company and characters sometimes don't feel *real*... they feel as though they were designed to be generic, so as to be more generally relate-able... but in so doing they lose a dimension of their personality, and it's (paradoxically) harder to relate to them very deeply. It makes the story feel rather "jack of all trades, master of none." Which is okay, it provides a solid all-around basis, but I'd also want something more specific to either my industry or my field, or my particular problems.
The actual 5 dysfunctions seem pretty solid to me. I somewhat disagree on just how bad each one might be and what sorts of behaviors will be better or worse, but it's a reasonably good framework for looking at a team and judging it's overall effectiveness.
I do suspect that the book does not stress the lower dysfunctions (particularly the lowest one, lack of trust) strongly enough. This is based on my own experience- people want to try and talk about failures at all levels of the pyramid, but the reality is it's extremely difficult to effectively solve any problems above trust, until trust is already solved. Therefore, I believe it would be better to focus heavily on trust only until you're sure it's really nailed down, then move up the pyramid. Even the team in the story makes this mistake, and consequently backslides easily. I believe the book does not do enough to dissuade readers from trying to fix problems at every level right off the bat.
To my earlier point of wanting a more focused book, I will add that if you're looking to fix an IT department specifically I'd *highly* recommend "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim, even instead of this one. This is still good (and there's a lot of info that's complementary), but that one is just flat better, for that specific scenario. It is also in novel form, but reads much more naturally to me (as an IT manager). I could certainly relate to things in 5 Dysfunctions, but I could feel the protagonists challenges in my soul in TPP. It's a whole other level of precision and applicability. I imagine there may be books like this for other disciplines.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2025Packed with so much wisdom and thought provoking concepts while also being an easy/digestible read. Great for any leader of any size of team!
- Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2025As your reading, you are progressing in a real time example. It is easy to read as well as having aha moments to your team and the examples used.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2012I have an aversion to business fables. The ones I've read give me the irrates. They seem to trivialise business. Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life , Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions (Kotter, Our Iceberg is Melting) , Fish! and Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling all left me a little cold. So it was with some trepidation that I picked up The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Fable by Patrick Lencioni.
Five Dysfunctions popped up on my radar a couple of years ago and ever since then a number of people suggested I should read it. It was published back in 2002 and there seems to be quite an industry that's grown around it with addional handbooks and resources available. For me, this wasn't a good sign.
Then a client lent me a copy so I started on a plane trip home from Sydney and finsihed the book in three short sittings. It's a nicely crafted story: short chapters, cliff hangers, good dialogue and believable and messy business situations.
Most of Five Dysfunctions is a business story. About a third of the book, at the end, describes the five dysfunctions model. The story is about Kathryn who joins DecionTech as their new CEO. The executive team is a bit of a mess and they don't welcome her with open arms. Kathryn starts a process of conversations and straight talking at a series offsites and team meetings and engages the Executive in understanding a simple model showing what needs to happen to turn their group into a team.
Like all good models it's nice and simple and can be drawn on a whiteboard.
Each part of the model is interlocked. It's pointless working on one part without addressing the others.
One of the real advantages of learning about the model as a story is that you hear from the characters ask and answer questions. You are a fly on the wall of an executive team and you learn through their experiences. This experiential learning is then reinforced with the didactic chapter at the end of the book.
Here's how Kathryn describes the five dysfunctions.
Absence of Trust: "Great teams do not hold back with one another." "They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal."
Fear of conflict:"If we don't trust each other, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, idealogical conflict. And we'll just continue to preserve a sense of artifical harmony."
Lack of commitment: "I'm talking about commitment to a plan or a decision, and getting everyone to buy into it. That's why conflict is so important." "It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like theyre been listen to, they wont really get on board."
Avoidance of accountability: "Once we achieve clarity and buy-in, it is then that we have to hold each other accountable for what we have signed up to do, for high standards of performance and behaviour. And as simple as that sounds, most executives hate to do it, especially when it comes to a peer's behaviour, because they want to avoid interpersonal discomfort."
The last dysfunction, Inattention to Results, is all about putting the team before individual egos. This issue is handled over a number of chapters at the end of the fable but I wont go into detail and spoil the surprise.
What I really liked about this book was just how well written the story was so are immersed in the world of an executive team and see the tensions and compromises, their good itent and judgements, and how conflict arises and can play out. There're plenty of models of good and poor behaviour, and our hero, Kathryn, shows us one way progress can be made.
What struck me most was just how much time is needed for an effective team to spend together planning, discussing, arguing. The perenial push back to spending this time, however, is that tired business phrase, "we just need to get back to the real work." Well, here's the breaking news for any executive who wants their company to excel: it's your first priority to build an effective executive team so it can draw on all its talents to achieve results.
I loved this book and have been recommending it all over the place. Get a copy, read it, then pass it on to another executive who you think really needs to get their team back on track.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2024Great efforts needed by greats leaders to get to the results we need in our world.
A leader with a messed up compass will create a messed up envorinment where messed up non-teams will rule and come up with messed up results.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025As I read this book and the progression of dysfunctions, I found it uncomfortably close to the reality of my experience. Simultaneously, it does a good job of capturing the team atmosphere and ways of engaging with others that reflect what we want.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2025Enjoyed reading this as a follow up to my company doing a ranking against the dysfunctions. The storyline kept things moving along and related to each of the five areas quite well. The summary at the end tied it all together based on the survey results we’d shared as a company and areas we wanted to work on specifically.
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- MoressanReviewed in Belgium on May 3, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars I recommend this book
Perfect book to move forward in my own development
- M. HAMReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional book that you will use time and time again
Excellent parable. A great study of the dysfunctional organisations we all encounter. Appropriate for any organisation of team.
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AmazonienReviewed in France on January 3, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Bonne introduction mais ne peut-être séparé du livre d'application de la méthode, ne peut-être utilisé sans l'autre livre.
Fait prendre conscience des problématiques des équipes. Je n'ai pas aimé le style romancé, ce n'est pas exactement ce que j'attendais, on a du mal a entrer dans l'histoire, surtout qu'elle relate de la culture américaine, la transposition française nécessite de l'imagination. Une fois que l'on est dans l'histoire, ça va mieux mais il faudra se forcer. Ensuite on découvre les problématiques basées sur des exemples précis, la on s'y retrouve et on arrive à faire des parallèles intéressants dans la culture française car cas universels.
Ensuite on découvre l'analyse mais on reste sur sa faim, d'où l'achat du second livre nécessaire si l'on veut une méthode pratique d'application. Les 2 livres sont essentiels et donnent des résultats, j'en suis très satisfait. Les 2 livres n'auraient pu faire qu'un.
- Prashant MithareReviewed in India on March 15, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Sandra RLReviewed in Mexico on June 26, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Bueno
Me gustó el libro y se lee fácil porque a diferencia de muchos libros de este tipo, lo cuentan como una historia de caso real. Fue rápido de leer y lo que más me gusto, es que al final dan un resumen de toda la información que dieron en un formato sencillo de compartir si quieres compartir con tu equipo las conclusiones del libro y la información, que siento que es bastante oportuna para los equipos de hoy en día.