Recently, I had the opportunity to read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (on O’Reilly ) and wanted to provide my thoughts on it. The book follows the story of Kathryn, who took the position of CEO at a dying startup tech company. The company can’t ship software effectively and is having internal problems with its C-Suite leadership team. The team itself is highly dysfunctional and cannot come to a single decision in multiple hours of meetings.