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Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable is unavailable, but you can change that!

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company...

at the heart of teamwork (see the model on page 214) if he or she didn’t buy into the idea of being humble, hungry, and smart? The answer was a resounding no. A person who is not humble will not be able to be vulnerable and build trust, making them unable to engage in honest conflict and hold others accountable. And they’ll have a hard time committing to decisions that don’t serve their interests. A colleague who lacks hunger will not be willing to engage in uncomfortable conflict, hold peers accountable
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