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    This document summarizes the key points from Patrick Lencioni's book The Five Temptations of a Leader. The book discusses five common leadership pitfalls that CEOs and leaders often fall into: choosing status over results, popularity over accountability, certainty over clarity, harmony over conflict, and invulnerability over trust. For each temptation, the book provides a strategy for overcoming it, such as publicly committing to measurable results, holding people accountable, establishing productive conflict, and building trust.

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    This document summarizes the key points from Patrick Lencioni's book The Five Temptations of a Leader. The book discusses five common leadership pitfalls that CEOs and leaders often fall into: choosing status over results, popularity over accountability, certainty over clarity, harmony over conflict, and invulnerability over trust. For each temptation, the book provides a strategy for overcoming it, such as publicly committing to measurable results, holding people accountable, establishing productive conflict, and building trust.

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    The Five Temptations


    The FIVE
    TEMPTATIONS of a Leader
    of a CEO
    A L E A D E R S H I P F A B L E

    Overcoming the Five Leadership Pitfalls


    STATUS
    Temptation #1: Choosing Status over Results over
    PATRICK LENCIONI
    AUTHOR OF T H E F I V E D Y S F U N C T I O N S O F A T E A M
    Strategy for Overcoming: Focus on Results RESULTS
    • Publicly commit to measurable results
    • Evaluate your success based on these results alone

    Temptation #2: Choosing Popularity over Accountability POPULARITY


    Accountability over
    Strategy for Overcoming: Hold People Accountable ensures results ACCOUNTABILITY
    • Confront direct reports immediately about behavior and performance
    • Clarify expectations up front to make confronting direct reports easier

    Temptation #3: Choosing Certainty over Clarity


    CERTAINTY
    Strategy for Overcoming: Provide Clarity Clarity allows
    over
    accountability
    • Set public deadlines for making key decisions CLARITY
    • Practice making decisions without complete information around
    less risky issues

    Temptation #4: Choosing Harmony over Conflict HARMONY


    Conflict leads
    Strategy for Overcoming: Establish Productive Conflict over
    to clarity
    CONFLICT
    • Draw out differing opinions and perspectives from staff members
    • Engage in – and allow – passionate discussions about key issues

    Temptation #5: Choosing Invulnerability over Trust INVULNERABILITY


    Strategy for Overcoming: Build Trust Trust lets healthy over
    conflict occur
    • Acknowledge your own weaknesses and mistakes TRUST
    • Allow direct reports to see your human side

    To l e a r n m o re a b o u t T h e Ta b l e G ro u p , p l e a s e v i s i t w w w. t a b l e g ro u p . c o m

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