Patrick M. Lencioni

A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

The 6 Types of Working Genius

Briar's Reviews

The 6 Types of Working Genius is an incredible business read to help you figure out how to get your team motivated and in the right jobs.

This book starts with Patrick telling the story of how him and his team came up with the six types of working geniuses. It's not until the last couple of chapters that you will get the actual "meat" that you came for - Want to know about the six geniuses and how it applies to you? Skip about 170 pages. The first part of the book is fantastic, and I had the audiobook so the sass from the narrator was ON POINT, but if you just want to know how to work better... The beginning isn't for you.

The only reason I enjoyed this book as much as I did was the narrator for the audiobook. He made the book so much fun storytelling wise. The book is good and has a lot of good insights, but I don't think I would have been interested in the story without the narrator. Otherwise, I would have wanted to skip to the end to just find out what the geniuses were and how to make them work for you.

If you get to the end of this book and want to know yours... Well, go to the website and pay $25 USD and then you can know! That's the most frustrating part, but hey... they gotta make money somehow! But yeah, there's no personality test in this book. It just explains the base definitions... 

Three out of five stars. Why? The model is fantastic but the book doesn't have what it advertises. Its basically an add on for the personality test.

Scott Wilson

Did you know that your teammates and you each have two of six unique gifts or working genius as the author shows you in his unique business parable style? Patrick M. Lencioni is well known for his business fiction that teaches a lesson and then follows it up with learning that goes in-depth to cover his ideas.

This book was fun to read and enjoyable to learn these lessons!

The topic was easy to understand and helpful to provide reasoning for why some teams seem to fail when the team assembled appears at its face to be excellent - > they might be missing one, or more, of the working genius types!

I highly recommend that you check this book out!

Thank you so much to Net Galley, Author Patrick M. Lencioni and publisher Matt Holt for this advance copy to review. My review was unswayed by any outside influence and represents my own opinions.

The 6 Types of Working Genius A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

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