---
product_id: 286377
title: "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition"
price: "153.37 DT"
currency: TND
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 10
url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/286377-the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team-a-leadership-fable-20th
store_origin: TN
region: Tunisia
---

# 4.6/5 from 14,446 reviews #1 in HR & Personnel Management 20th Anniversary Edition The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

**Price:** 153.37 DT
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 📘 Unlock the secrets of unstoppable teams—don’t get left behind!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition
- **How much does it cost?** 153.37 DT with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/286377-the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team-a-leadership-fable-20th)

## Best For

- Customers looking for quality international products

## Why This Product

- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Versatile Application:** Applicable across industries—from corporate teams to education and interpersonal dynamics.
- • **Engaging Narrative Style:** Learn through a compelling business fable that makes complex concepts easy and memorable.
- • **Proven Bestseller Status:** Join thousands of professionals who trust this #1 ranked HR leadership guide.
- • **Anniversary Edition Quality:** Celebrate 20 years of impact with a premium hardcover edition designed to last.
- • **Timeless Leadership Insights:** Master the 5 core dysfunctions that hold teams back and unlock peak performance.

## Overview

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition by Patrick M. Lencioni is a bestselling hardcover book that explores the five fundamental obstacles preventing teams from achieving cohesion and success. Through an accessible and engaging fictional narrative, it offers timeless leadership lessons applicable across industries. With a 4.6-star rating from over 14,000 readers and top rankings in HR and business management categories, this edition celebrates two decades of transforming team dynamics.

## Description

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition [Lencioni, Patrick M.] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

Review: Relevant and timeless! - I asked my boss for a suggestion on a leadership book that he would recommend. He is someone who reads a lot of books in this space and when he told me this book without hesitation I knew I needed to pick it up. After I picked it up, I literally never put it down and read it in a day! The author presents and outlines his premise through the use of a hypothetical example of a team that was together for awhile but was dysfunctional. Although the scenario is from a corporate/business setting, I think the principles can be applied easily to educational settings or even interpersonal relationships. This book is accessible to anyone, entertaining and eye opening in its direct simplicity and easy to understand principles. I would highly recommend this to anyone!
Review: pretty good guide to team/management pitfalls - This is a novel, not a reference book, but the storytelling works fairly well. Consequently, while it works okay for replicating the success in the story within your own team, if you happen across a situation that falls outside something they addressed in the story, you may be a bit lost in how best to deal with it. That's the nature of dealing with a novel instead of a direct implementation guide. On the plus side, it's a heck of a lot easier to read a story than a dry manual. :) It does feel just a bit contrived to me. The situations are relate-able, but they feel just a little forced... like the situations are designed to fit the lessons, rather than being strictly based in reality. The company and characters sometimes don't feel *real*... they feel as though they were designed to be generic, so as to be more generally relate-able... but in so doing they lose a dimension of their personality, and it's (paradoxically) harder to relate to them very deeply. It makes the story feel rather "jack of all trades, master of none." Which is okay, it provides a solid all-around basis, but I'd also want something more specific to either my industry or my field, or my particular problems. The actual 5 dysfunctions seem pretty solid to me. I somewhat disagree on just how bad each one might be and what sorts of behaviors will be better or worse, but it's a reasonably good framework for looking at a team and judging it's overall effectiveness. I do suspect that the book does not stress the lower dysfunctions (particularly the lowest one, lack of trust) strongly enough. This is based on my own experience- people want to try and talk about failures at all levels of the pyramid, but the reality is it's extremely difficult to effectively solve any problems above trust, until trust is already solved. Therefore, I believe it would be better to focus heavily on trust only until you're sure it's really nailed down, then move up the pyramid. Even the team in the story makes this mistake, and consequently backslides easily. I believe the book does not do enough to dissuade readers from trying to fix problems at every level right off the bat. To my earlier point of wanting a more focused book, I will add that if you're looking to fix an IT department specifically I'd *highly* recommend "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim, even instead of this one. This is still good (and there's a lot of info that's complementary), but that one is just flat better, for that specific scenario. It is also in novel form, but reads much more naturally to me (as an IT manager). I could certainly relate to things in 5 Dysfunctions, but I could feel the protagonists challenges in my soul in TPP. It's a whole other level of precision and applicability. I imagine there may be books like this for other disciplines.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #435 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Human Resources & Personnel Management (Books) #9 in Business Management (Books) #15 in Leadership & Motivation |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (14,502) |
| Dimensions  | 5.7 x 1 x 8.4 inches |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0787960756 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0787960759 |
| Item Weight  | 13.6 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 256 pages |
| Publication date  | April 11, 2002 |
| Publisher  | Jossey-Bass |

## Images

![The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Kz7ODzW4L.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Relevant and timeless!
*by B***N on July 24, 2025*

I asked my boss for a suggestion on a leadership book that he would recommend. He is someone who reads a lot of books in this space and when he told me this book without hesitation I knew I needed to pick it up. After I picked it up, I literally never put it down and read it in a day! The author presents and outlines his premise through the use of a hypothetical example of a team that was together for awhile but was dysfunctional. Although the scenario is from a corporate/business setting, I think the principles can be applied easily to educational settings or even interpersonal relationships. This book is accessible to anyone, entertaining and eye opening in its direct simplicity and easy to understand principles. I would highly recommend this to anyone!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ pretty good guide to team/management pitfalls
*by J***M on May 10, 2014*

This is a novel, not a reference book, but the storytelling works fairly well. Consequently, while it works okay for replicating the success in the story within your own team, if you happen across a situation that falls outside something they addressed in the story, you may be a bit lost in how best to deal with it. That's the nature of dealing with a novel instead of a direct implementation guide. On the plus side, it's a heck of a lot easier to read a story than a dry manual. :) It does feel just a bit contrived to me. The situations are relate-able, but they feel just a little forced... like the situations are designed to fit the lessons, rather than being strictly based in reality. The company and characters sometimes don't feel *real*... they feel as though they were designed to be generic, so as to be more generally relate-able... but in so doing they lose a dimension of their personality, and it's (paradoxically) harder to relate to them very deeply. It makes the story feel rather "jack of all trades, master of none." Which is okay, it provides a solid all-around basis, but I'd also want something more specific to either my industry or my field, or my particular problems. The actual 5 dysfunctions seem pretty solid to me. I somewhat disagree on just how bad each one might be and what sorts of behaviors will be better or worse, but it's a reasonably good framework for looking at a team and judging it's overall effectiveness. I do suspect that the book does not stress the lower dysfunctions (particularly the lowest one, lack of trust) strongly enough. This is based on my own experience- people want to try and talk about failures at all levels of the pyramid, but the reality is it's extremely difficult to effectively solve any problems above trust, until trust is already solved. Therefore, I believe it would be better to focus heavily on trust only until you're sure it's really nailed down, then move up the pyramid. Even the team in the story makes this mistake, and consequently backslides easily. I believe the book does not do enough to dissuade readers from trying to fix problems at every level right off the bat. To my earlier point of wanting a more focused book, I will add that if you're looking to fix an IT department specifically I'd *highly* recommend "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim, even instead of this one. This is still good (and there's a lot of info that's complementary), but that one is just flat better, for that specific scenario. It is also in novel form, but reads much more naturally to me (as an IT manager). I could certainly relate to things in 5 Dysfunctions, but I could feel the protagonists challenges in my soul in TPP. It's a whole other level of precision and applicability. I imagine there may be books like this for other disciplines.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well-Written and Easy to Understand. A Good book for Team Leaders and Folks Who Want to Be One.
*by L***W on April 17, 2017*

I belong to a LinkedIn group whose members are all applicants for employment at a large company. One candidate told us that the company recommended this book to him in an interview, so I purchased it. It is well written, easy to read and understand, and really gets to the heart of how companies can form good leadership teams. It starts with a "story" that describes how one leader put these practices into play to "save" a struggling leadership team at a tech company. The story part is entertaining and effectively demonstrates the steps to team effectiveness. I think it's interesting that the author couched the title in negative terms, a better title for this book would have been Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team. But maybe that was too long. The second half of the book deals in more direct, technical terms with the dysfunctions identified and how much time should be spent on overcoming each along with suggestions for steps to do so. The one thing I missed in this book was that there wasn't just a list of the Five Dysfunctions so that I could refer to it to refresh my memory. The ideas were all ones I thought were obvious after decades as a team leader, but they were well-distilled into one place here, and this book would be a valuable addition to any leadership library. The big bonus was that I purchased it for Kindle, so my Echo Dot at home could read it aloud to me. I listened while I did my household tasks on a weekend, then I sat down with my mobile device and Kindle app, to review the more in depth portions of the book. Overall, I found this book well-written and well worth an afternoon's time to read it.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition
- Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators (J–B Lencioni Series)
- The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues (J-B Lencioni Series)

---

## Why Shop on Desertcart?

- 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016
- 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories
- 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price
- 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members)
- 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection
- ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews

**Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/286377-the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team-a-leadership-fable-20th](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/286377-the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team-a-leadership-fable-20th)

---

*Product available on Desertcart Tunisia*
*Store origin: TN*
*Last updated: 2026-02-09*