The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family
A Leadership Fable About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life
By Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni (The Three Signs of a Miserable Job) makes an eloquent case for applying business tools to manage scattered and stressful home lives. He observes that even successful people who apply strategies and long-term thinking at work neglect to implement plans and goals for their own families, noting that family chaos is just part of life and so we accept levels of confusion and disorganization and craziness at home that we would not tolerate at work. Lencioni invites readers into the lives of a fictional family, describing how overwhelmed stay-at-home mom Theresa brings greater serenity into her home by integrating business pointers into a three-step plan in which her family identifies what makes them unique, their top priority or rallying cry (a big project that can be worked on in two to six months) and a regular time to discuss their progress, preferably 10 minutes a week. Although Lencioni admits that his own family’s experience using these tools has been limited, his book is a worthwhile if brief attempt to grapple with a particularly thorny problem facing overextended families.
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About the Author
Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni is president of The Table Group, a management consulting firm specializing in executive team development and organizational health.
As a consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with thousands of senior executives and executive teams in organizations ranging from Fortune 500s and high tech start-ups to universities and non-profits.
His clients include Southwest Airlines, AT&T, Bechtel, Cisco, Sam’s Club, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Allstate, Visa, FedEx, New York Life, Sprint, The Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the US Military Academy, West Point. He has delivered dozens of keynote addresses on leadership, organizational change, teamwork and corporate culture. He has written five best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Overcoming the Five Dysunctions of a Team: A Field Guide, and Death by Meeting. His most recent title, Silos, Politics and Turf Wars, was released in February 2006.
Previously, Lencioni worked at the management consulting firm Bain & Company, Oracle Corporation, and Sybase, where he was VP of Organization Development. He also served on the National Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America from 2000-2003.