Jeff Shanley, the co-founder of a Silicon Valley startup wanted to make a career change. So when the opportunity arose to take over Valley Builders, his family’s California-based construction company, Shanley jumped at the chance. With two of the company’s biggest projects in its history looming, his challenge was to build a culture of teamwork within the firm.
That’s the premise of The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues (Jossey-Bass, 2016), “a leadership fable” by Patrick Lencioni, president of the Lafayette, Calif.-based Table Group, a management consulting firm. His first best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Jossey-Bass, 2002), hit on similar themes.
