Five Temptations of the CEO: A Fable About Leadership Art

Author: Patrick Lencioni
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Publish Date: 2003-07-22
Features:
● This book is one of Patrick Lencioni's management fable trilogy, a powerful and impactful study on leadership;
● The first half of the book is a captivating business novel, mysterious, fluid, and full of suspense, while the latter half is a deep and detailed pattern diagnosis, insightful and thorough;
● Author Patrick Lencioni is the Chairman of Table, a management consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also the author of the international bestseller The Four Lenses of Leadership and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Patrick has worked with hundreds of managers and CEOs—all of whom have been victims of the Five Temptations—and almost everyone can find their own reflection in the novel. Through this book, readers can uncover the deeper causes of their mistakes and develop strategies for improvement in the professional pattern analysis;
● This book is suitable for CEOs and other managers in various types of businesses. It is an outstanding work specifically focused on CEO leadership, and managers at all levels can gain a great deal from it. For a CEO, the position itself signifies a certain level of success, but to maintain this success, CEOs often succumb to the persistent temptations lurking in their subconscious. Lencioni reveals the mysteries in a unique way: the endless management crises in companies are often not caused by surface-level strategic errors, poor marketing, competitive threats, or foolish decisions in technology development, but rather by fundamental yet often unacknowledged mistakes made by the CEO at the core of management. The first half of the book is a captivating business novel, mysterious, fluid, and full of suspense; the latter half is a deep and detailed pattern diagnosis, insightful and thorough. This writing style, deeply marked by Lencioni's signature, has been a great success in business management literature. Almost every leader can find their reflection in the novel while simultaneously discovering the deeper causes of their mistakes and developing strategies for improvement in the professional pattern analysis.