Customer Review: `The Five Dysfunctions of a Team' highlights the difference between an effective team and one that just isn't working. Patrick Lencioni explains that the five dysfunctions include an absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention. He uses an... more info
Customer Review: I read this book as an assignment for a communication class. I thoroughly enjoyed this book as it was not only easy to read but, it provided valuable insight to what goes wrong during the communication process and how one can begin to steer the process back in a productive direction. After reading... more info
Customer Review: I share most of the sentiments other negative reviewers have expressed about the book. It's insulting to every employee's intelligence (if they have any), although it was a nice way to waste several hours (it took me about 15 minutes to read the book, but we spent hours having meetings and group... more info
Customer Review: FISH! does what so many corporate motivation books fail to do; it fosters success. It's an easy read, it's concise, and its strategies are user-friendly and can easily be implemented personally, professionally and most importantly, corporately. I have read a fair share of group dynamic books for my... more info
Customer Review: After a very mild, but poorly handled (by me) confrontation at work, my boss recommended that I read this book. He felt it would help me learn tools to deal with the little squabbles that happen everyday in a hospital environment. It did- and also helped almost immediately with a personal problem as... more info
Customer Review: No time waster and right to the point. Follow the instructions in this excellent book and you'll become everyone's favorite and a successful person. Simple to understand and a great book, I highly recommend it to everyone.
Customer Review: As I have done on other occasions when I am reviewing more than one work by an author I am using some of the same comments, where they are pertinent, here as I did in earlier reviews. In this series the first Studs Terkel book reviewed was that of his "The Good War": an Oral History of World War... more info
Customer Review: Mandatory book for a class that failed to deliver academic quality work. While a nice enough read for airport commuters between flights, this book is rather simplistic and lacks that real impact. In short, this book talks about five dysfunctions, which are pretty well commonly understood by most... more info
Customer Review: The 'box' is a wonderful toy to help us view our common ways of getting into and out of negative perspectives. Simple awareness and identification of a way of being allows us the choice to move on. Thank you Arbinger.
