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 by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues.

Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

This style might not be to everyone's taste, but I find it helps me grasp the concepts. 5 dysfunctions of a team is one of my favourites, so decided to pick this up.

Humble, hungry and smart is a simple, clear, concept explained well in the book, and the examples of how it can help in different situations was useful.

I wasn't as keen on the emphasis on hungry equating to how many extra hours an employee does, but the overall concept can still be applied as makes sense to each different organisation. ( )

We were assigned this book for preparation for our quarterly manager's roundtable and I'm pretty confident that Lencioni is my favorite business book author. His use of fictional scenarios and tying them easily to the principles he's trying to teach is endearing and puts it well above other business books I've been assigned.

The "fable" parts humanize theory, I'm engaged in how the story progresses and when the second part of the book references specific characters, the ideas really click in mind. I will be using "hungry, humble, smart" for my own team evaluation and am very keen to read other Lencioni books in this genre. ( )

It was a really quick read. The first section is a story about a person coming into a company full of HR challenges and upcoming staffing needs. The lead team has to figure out a way to hire and keep a large volume of folks. They explore what they want out of potential teammates. The second section dives into the virtues of an ideal team player. It also discusses the application of the virtues for yourself or team members. I feel like the story at the beginning was pretty hokey and unnecessary to drive home the ideals in section 2. Overall not a bad read. I read this one for work. ( )

The Ideal Team Player tells a story of Bob Shanley, ther of Valley Builders Construction Company. The company is about to take 2 major contract and in order to deal with them the company has to hire new employees. Meanwhile, Bob and his top team revise its staff and realize that the company has a very high turnover rate due to the fact that many of the current employees are not effective team players. In order to mitigate the problem the management team decides to research what makes an effective team player.

They realise that there are three crucial qualities which a perfect team player has: humbleness, ambition and smarts. In addition, they acknowledge that the best method to find such people is by crafting an effective recruitment process in order to recognise candidates who fit within the business culture and have looked traits.

Afterward, the book points out the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which recognises four different personality types. This indicator seems to be important as it helps to build well-balanced teams with a variety of different personalities which compensate for each other in areas that are weak or strong.
The most valuable team member is equally competent in each of the three team virtues, nevertheless, the most important one is humbleness. When a person lacks humbleness they might be arrogant. Arrogant people tend to feel that only they deserve a promotion, however, if such a situation occurs those employees abuse the situation. In some cases, arrogance might be confused with confidence.
When it comes to ambition, generally... (if you like to read my full review please visit my blog: https://leadersarereaders.blog/2018/11/17/the-ideal-team-player-how-to-recognize... ( )