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“Consensus is horrible. I mean, if everyone really agrees on something and consensus comes about quickly and naturally, well that’s terrific. But that isn’t how it usually works, and so consensus becomes an attempt to please everyone.”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“The next dysfunction of a team is the lack of commitment and the failure to buy in to decisions.” She wrote the dysfunction above the previous one. “And the evidence of this one is ambiguity, ” which she wrote next to it. Nick was reengaging now.”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Well, some teams get paralyzed by their need for complete agreement, and their inability to move beyond debate.” JR spoke up. “Disagree and commit.”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Consensus is horrible. I mean, if everyone really agrees on something and consensus comes about quickly and naturally, well that’s terrific. But that isn’t how it usually works, and so consensus becomes an attempt to please everyone.” “Which usually”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“If you really think about it, meetings should be at least as interesting as movies.”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“She explained. “Once we achieve clarity and buy-in, it is then that we have to hold each other accountable for what we sign up to do, for high standards of performance and behavior. And as simple as that sounds, most executives hate to do it, especially when it comes to a peer’s behavior, because they want to avoid interpersonal discomfort.”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

“No one seemed ready to offer an answer, so Kathryn quickly provided it for them. Just above absence of trust she wrote fear of conflict. “If we don’t trust one another, then we aren’t going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. And we’ll just continue to preserve a sense of artificial”
― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable