The Ideal Team Player

How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues • A Leadership Fable

De: Patrick Lencioni

Narrado por: Adam Barr

"You guys really dropped the ball on the teamwork project.”
They didn’t say anything, so Jeff continued, focusing on Bobby. “You said it wasn’t just posters and t-shirts, but what else was it?” Before they could answer, he went on. “Because you don’t seem to know what you mean when you talk about team players.”
“We didn’t say—” Clare wanted to explain, but Jeff wouldn’t let her.
“Oh wait. I forgot.” Jeff was being sarcastic, but not rude. “You do have one clear definition. A person can’t be a jackass.”
They laughed, but in a guilty sort of way.

In his classic best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking, new approach for attacking the dangerous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here, he turns his focus to the individual member of a team, revealing the three indispensable virtues that make some people better team players than others.

Lencioni’s latest fable is the story of a leader desperate to save his company by cracking the code on the virtues that define a true team player. Jeff Shanley takes over his family’s locally revered construction firm and realizes that the only way to deliver on the two biggest projects in the company’s history is to rapidly build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. To do that, he’ll have to confront and risk losing talented employees who don’t know how to work on a team, and convince his fiery VP of operations not to lower the company’s hiring standards in the face of short-term business pressure.

Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a powerful framework and easy-to-use tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players in any kind of organization. Whether you’re a leader striving to create a culture of teamwork, a human resources professional looking to hire real team players, or an employee wanting to make yourself an invaluable team member, The Ideal Team Player will prove to be as practical as it is compelling.

©2016 Patrick Lencioni (P)2024 Recorded Books

Don’t hire jackasses!

This could not be more true! So much more to this than most can observe!

It’s a must

It’s a must to read If you want to be an ideal team player or want build a strong team

Must read for managers

Hopefully this will give you quick perspective for life about yourself and how your team views each other and how to fix any problems

Worth the read!

Loved this audible. Simple and definitely a great model to lead by. Great examples given throughout the story.

Great read, helpful information

Another home run by Patrick, on straight forward principles for building a great team! Thank you Patrick!

The foresight of thought on the book

Amazing food for thought this is my first Lencioni book it will not be my last.

it's offensive!

I’m changing my 3-star review to 1 star. Reading this book and listening to it and diving into the minds of Clair, Bobby, and Jeff was part comedy, part showcase of immaturity. It’s full of red flags—calling people jackasses, referring to a woman as a “puzzle,” using “hag” as coded language, and picking apart a candidate named Ted in search of red flags, all while preaching about a New Culture they themselves fail to embody. The script is over-narrated and bloated with unnecessary details, and the mention of praying before lunch in a job setting feels like a PsyOp by the author. I honestly can’t wait to finish this book.

Very “give your life to the company”

I like the general idea that a team player is obviously going to be better for your a team. I really dislike how judgmental this book is on anyone who doesn’t people fit their criteria. I also think it’s insane that they take their candidate shopping for a child’s present during the interview to test how humble they are. If I showed up for an interview and they asked me to get in the car and go shopping with them, I’d be running out the door and never work there. That’s unprofessional, seems rather unsafe, especially if you’re a woman, and I’d feel so absolutely disrespected. This book is clearly written by someone who was handed generational wealth. No one needs to do more than they’re asked at work, if you do your job well, why is that so unsatisfactory? no one should be working off hours for a job, and devoting all their time and thought and passion to a company. Very boomer mentality. The guy reading the book did a good job though.