Patrick Lencioni, in his must-read book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, lists the five traits that create dysfunction: • Absence of trust: unwilling to be open and honest with each other. • Fear of ...

A leadership team sits in silence as the CEO presents the company’s strategic plan for the year. Everyone nods in agreement. No one pushes back, no one challenges assumptions. On the surface, it looks ...

With executive teams, there is often an unconscious role playing—an emotional reenactment of old stories. After many months of stalled projects and disagreements, one of my clients approached me, ...

A conversation with researchers Thomas Keil and Marianna Zangrillo about the dynamics at the top of organizations. CEOs get a ton of credit or blame for a company’s performance. But the entire ...

As Big Cat likes to say, “Dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things.” Which means that, when dysfunctional things happen, it’s fair to wonder whether the team doing them is dysfunctional. Case in ...