Get a team to hold each other accountable instead of routing everything to you
meetings are polite, deadlines slip, nobody calls it out in the room, and people come to you privately to complain about each other.
Built on
Patrick Lencioni · 2002
Supplies the diagnosis: no trust, so no conflict, so no commitment or peer accountability. Kathryn at DecisionTech pulls the argument into the room instead of refereeing it afterward.
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin · 2017
Supplies the leader's first move: own the failure out loud, then push ownership down with decentralized command so people stop escalating to you.
The prompt
My situation: [describe the team, what keeps slipping, what meetings are like, and what people bring to you privately]
Use The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (2002) and Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin (2017) to help.
Recall any details from the whole book that help, including names, numbers, scenes, or cases that are not the most famous chapter titles.
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