The Ideal Team Player

Outline

The Ideal Team Player (2016) uses a business fable to explain the three qualities that make someone a great team member: being humble, hungry, and smart about people. Patrick Lencioni tells the story of a leader who must rebuild his company’s culture, then offers practical tools for hiring, assessing, and developing team players. The book helps leaders build stronger, healthier teams.

• A great team member is humble, hungry, and smart about people, and the book treats all three as essential.
• Lencioni teaches through a business fable about a leader who has to rebuild his company's culture.
• The book gives practical tools for hiring team players, not just for managing the ones you already have.
• Assessing and developing team players is an ongoing leadership task that helps build stronger, healthier teams.

Patrick Lencioni is an American author, speaker, and consultant on leadership and team development, and the founder of The Table Group. His books are often written as business fables that make management lessons easy to remember. They include The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Death by Meeting, and The Ideal Team Player.