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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good information for executives made accessible,
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This review is from: Five Disfunctions of a Team (Hardcover)
This book was mentioned by an executive with whom I was interviewing. Of course when interviewing at that level, you have to latch onto any little reference to build on the relationship; so I bought the book and read it before the next interview with him.This book contains three parts--a story illustrating the vagaries of team building at the executive level (184 pp), a description of the author's teamwork model (37 pp), and an 'afterword' (7 pp). The story is quite good. The challenge at a senior level is how to get people who are used to working in abstractions (..we have 'people' who handle the details) ...to actually absorb the specifics of a new method or process. Clearly, the story-telling approach overcomes this obstacle. The 'chapters' were actually short scenes designed to illustrate a bite-sized piece of the puzzle. Each piece built upon it's predecessor--no sleuthing necessary! The interactions were all perfectly believable, and the protagonist's observations were insightful. Why only four stars? Well, the summary of the model itself was far less tightly-wound than the story. Each part of the 37 pp section starts out with solid, succinct summaries of each part of the model; but then, each subsection trails off into unfocused fragments that seem to convey little additional information. In fact, the afterword suffers from even less focus and editing. It's not even worth reading in my opinion. Summary: The first 80% of the book is great, the first paragraph or two of each subsection in the next 15% is useful, and the last 5% is an annoying time-waster. Cheers! -j.
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