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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

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Lencioni ranks teamwork above money, planning and technology as the real edge. It wins, he says, for two reasons: it's powerful, and few organisations manage it. Something so valuable and so uncommon is hard for rivals to copy.

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