Ratings72
Average rating4
This little unassuming book is well organized, compelling, and actionable. The leadership fable offers characters and intrigue, making the key points easy to pull out of the abstraction. Management and leadership books can be so dull, even when the information is useful.
Thankfully, Lencioni saves the boring information - that we are going to need - until after spoon feeding us the key points with a short story.
4 stars - found Lencioni's writing to be full of simple but compelling literary techniques, such as clearly telegraphed foreshadowing. Very much new to the genre of self-help books written through fictional stories, and really enjoyed it! Found it much more digestible and memorable in this story format, and useful summary at the end. Interesting and not immediately apparent takeaways such as meetings being the perfect time for constructive arguments, and the importance of not taking such vital arguments ‘offline' or postponing them.
The writing of this book is wrought, so not a great read just for enjoyment, but good for practice of executive function.
Every so often I have to pick up one of these management books lying around the office and give it a read. This at least wasn't entirely painful and follows the “I'm going to tell you a story” while scattering little business bon mots throughout.
I expected more. Sure the story was interesting. But it did not convince me rather it made me question the model, by involving things like Mayer - bridge and Messiah leadership style.