Making the Team Lever Work

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Pat Lencioni’s landmark book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Pat’s book is a business classic, but it transcends the genre to say something about human groups in general. Buddying-up has been a productivity lever since homo sapiens first wandered out of the Rift Valley. We know intuitively that we can accomplish more together than any of us can do alone. We also know that teamwork can be incredible hard to sustain; something that is especially true amid today’s myriad forces of isolation and separation.

A line from the foreword to Pat’s book rings true (maybe truer) now than in 2002:

“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

Every Triangle client has a “team” of some sort. Making it an effect time one takes leadership.