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“Dysfunction #5: Inattention to Results.”

Over the next month, they didn’t become perfect. But they started arguing productively. They missed one more deadline—but this time, they called it out together two days early. They built a small dashboard for team results, not individual tasks.

On a rainy Tuesday, after a particularly humiliating client call where no one backed her up, Maya opened her old podcast app. In her "Recommended for You" feed sat an old title: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. She had listened to it two years ago, nodded along, and promptly forgotten everything.

Maya felt her stomach tighten.

Silence. Twenty seconds. Then the UX designer spoke: “I don’t know how to use the new prototyping tool. I’ve been faking it.”

This was the cruelest irony. Each person protected their own turf—design wanted perfection, engineering wanted elegance, marketing wanted hype. The team’s collective result? A broken product. They measured their individual effort, not the shared outcome.

The narrator began: “Dysfunction #1: Absence of Trust.” the five dysfunctions of a team audiobook repost

“Dysfunction #4: Avoidance of Accountability.”

She thought of the missed deadline last week. The backend lead had known for five days that he’d be late. No one asked. No one called him out. Accountability felt like aggression to this team. So instead, they let each other fail quietly.

Yes. Her team nodded at decisions—then left and did whatever they wanted. Why? Because without real debate (Dysfunction #2), no one felt heard. And if you don’t feel heard, you don’t feel bought in. Commitment is an emotional act, not just a calendar entry. “Dysfunction #5: Inattention to Results

Then she asked one question: “What’s one risk you’re afraid to admit to this team?”

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