Patrick M. Lencioni

Kensuke Okabayashi

Presents a workplace fable about dysfunctional teamwork, citing the fictional example of CEO Kathryn Petersen, who identifies five "corruptions" that get in the way of her company's teamwork and how she implements action steps to overcome them, in a new manga version of the best-selling business handbook. Original.

An Illustrated Leadership Fable

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Manga Edition

Pamela Geil

The fact remains that teams, because they are made up of imperfect human beings, are inherently dysfunctional.

 "Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction falure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another”

how members of truly cohesive teams behave: 

1. They trust one another. 2. They engage in unfiltered conflict around ideas. 3. They commit to decisions and plans of action. 4. They hold one another accountable for delivering against those plans. 5. They focus on the achievement of collective results.

In the context of building a team, trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates must get comfortable being vulnerable with one another.

 It requires team members to make themselves vulnerable to one another, and be confident that their respective vulnerabilities will not be used against them. The vulnerabilities I'm referring to include weaknesses, skill deficiencies, interpersonal shortcomings, mistakes, and requests for heln

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