Description
Lencioni's fifth fable and sixth book to date offers solutions to a key leadership issue: the impact of turf wars and political infighting on organizational effectiveness. Silos are an organization's vertical structures, but the word has become synonymous with barriers to workplace effectiveness and connotes deep political conflict. Silos devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. They cause stress, exasperation and disappointment by forcing employees to fight unwinnable battles with people who should be teammates. Like his other fables, this book is written in the form of a realistic but fictional story. Unlike those books, however, it involves not one but three organizations, all struggling to eliminate their silos and bring a sense of alignment back into place. About The Author: Patrick Lencioni is president of The Table Group, a management consulting firm specializing in executive team development and organizational health. As a consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with thousands of senior executives and executive teams in organizations ranging from Fortune 500s and high tech start-ups to universities and non-profits. His clients include AT&T, Bechtel, Boeing, Cisco, Sam's Club, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Allstate, Visa, FedEx, New York Life, Sprint, Novell, Sybase, The Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the US Military Academy, West Point. He has delivered dozens of keynote addresses on leadership, organizational change, teamwork and corporate culture. He has written five best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide, and Death by Meeting. Previously, Lencioni worked at the management consulting firm Bain & Company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase, where he was VP of Organization Development. He is on numerous advisory board
