Teamwork

Lencioni, in his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, describe Teamwork as having the following disciplines; building trust, mastering conflict, achieving commitment, embracing accountability, and executing for results.

I'll back into them...To have good teamwork you must execute for results. To execute for results you must embrace accountability. To embrace accountability you must achieve commitment. To achieve commitment you must master conflict. To master conflict you must build trust.

Lencioni claims that all five of these must happen, and essentially in this order, to do teamwork well.

My first read of Five Dysfuntions....... was some 7 years ago and I've very deligently practiced and tested Lencioni's "theory" since, and find him to be extremely accurate. It is obvious to the non-casual observer that this is more than theory. Lencioni writes from experience and I concur from experience after experience after experience.

Build trust to master conflict to achieve commitment to embrace accountability to execute for results.