{"podcast":{"title":"Business Book Club","slug":"business-book-club-7646926","podcast_index_feed_id":7646926,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/business-book-club/","website_url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-brown-572215181/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/152e1e39-4f01-4a7f-84fb-5081b68bab93/Business-Book-Club-Thumb.jpg","author":"Sam Brown","episode_count":21,"summary":"This podcast is for winners. Top founders join Sam Brown to discuss the most powerful insights from the world's best business books.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-book-club-7646926"},"episode":{"title":"The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni | with guest Alisa Cohn","slug":"the-5-dysfunctions-of-a-team-by-patrick-lencioni-with-guest-alisa-cohn","published_at":"2026-03-02T06:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-book-club-7646926/the-5-dysfunctions-of-a-team-by-patrick-lencioni-with-guest-alisa-cohn","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-book-club-7646926","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-brown-572215181/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/06c6112f-145f-441a-9642-50ff605bc5df.mp3","summary":"Even smart, well-funded executive teams fail. Patrick Lencioni's masterpiece, The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team , exposes the silent killers of company growth and provides a practical framework to turn a group of capable individuals into a truly cohesive unit. Joining me to unpack this framework is Alisa Cohn , an award-winning executive coach who was named the #1 Startup Coach in the world and has worked with C-suites at Venmo, Etsy, Microsoft, and Google. Today, Alisa breaks down why your department is not your most important team, how to build vulnerability-based trust, and why self-awareness is the ultimate cheat code for leadership. Key Takeaways & Timestamps 00:00 – Introducing The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team and the silent killers of company growth. 02:00 – The 5 Dysfunctions Framework: Alisa breaks down the hierarchy of team success: Trust drives Conflict, Conflict drives Commitment, Commitment drives Accountability, and Accountability drives Results. You cannot skip a step. 04:37 – Diagnosing Your Team: Why a lack of accountability is often just a symptom of a team that hasn't learned how to have productive conflict. 07:11 – The \"First Team\" Concept: Why the CMO's most important team is not the marketing department. It is the executive team. 09:20 – The Cost of Loyalty: How prioritizing your specific department over the executive team leads directly to toxic politics, silos, and blame. 14:24 – Self-Awareness as a Cheat Code: Why managing your ego and acting in service of the company is the hardest—but most necessary—leadership skill. 16:03 – The \"Working With Me\" Document: How creating a 1-to-2 page personal operating manual builds vulnerability-based trust. 16:59 – The 360 Feedback Loop: How to gather actionable behavioral feedback from the people above you, belo…","meta_description":"Even smart, well-funded executive teams fail. Patrick Lencioni's masterpiece, The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team , exposes the silent killers of company growth…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1363,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-book-club-7646926/episodes/the-5-dysfunctions-of-a-team-by-patrick-lencioni-with-guest-alisa-cohn/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-book-club-7646926/the-5-dysfunctions-of-a-team-by-patrick-lencioni-with-guest-alisa-cohn.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}