What would you do if someone took credit for all your work, would you confront him or her risking a confrontation or not say anything at all, which would build up resentment? It’s a surprising fact the reason why most new businesses fail is not because of product/market fit, finances or using the wrong technology, it’s because the team members do not get on with each other.

1. The Uncomfortable Truth
Why Teams Fail
Neil Patel

2. -Helen Keller
“Alone we can do so little,
together we can do so much."

3. It’s a surprising fact the reason why most new businesses fail is not
because of product/market fit, finances or using the wrong technology,
it’s because the team members do not get on with
each other.
What would you do if someone took credit for all your work, would you
confront him or her risking a confrontation or not say anything at all, which
would build up resentment?

5. On of the best books on this subject is called The Five
Dysfunctions of a Team – by Patrick M Lencioni.
Originally released in 2002
the author explains reasons why teams fail by telling a
story about a new CEO facing a team is such disarray
that it threatens to bring down the entire company.

6. This presentation explains
the 5 main reasons why teams fail, some of this may be
very obvious to you but in reality very difficult to
implement.

7. 1. Absence of Trust
● Team members are not open with one
another about their mistakes and
weaknesses because of fear of reprisals.
● Results will not be achievable without trust in
the team.

8. 2. Fear of conflict

9. 2. Fear of Conflict
Team members feel uncomfortable when it
comes to confrontation. By not confronting
this situation, it can damage relationships in
the long-term.

10. 3. Lack of Commitment
If a decision needs to be made and certain
team members have not been consulted or
their opinion not even listened to, it will have a
detrimental effect in reaching goals and targets.

11. 4. Avoidance of accountability
Even the most focused and driven people often
hesitate to call their peers on actions and
behaviors that seem counterproductive to the
good of the team.

12. 5. Inattention of results
Failure to hold one another accountable
creates an environment where team members
put their individual needs or even the needs of
their division above the collective goals of the
team.

13. Ways to overcome this

14. Take each team members into a room and ask them what the goal and
objectives of the project is, if you get five completely different views then is
the problem and you know something’s not right. You then have to
communicate to everyone within the rest of the organisation.
1. Make sure everyone is going in the
right direction

15. In a recent podcast Tim Ferris the author of the best selling 4-hour work
week and serial investor, has ways to check if he wants to work with a
team before investing. He takes them for a drink to see if there is a fit. Also
do they pass the shopping mall test i.e. if you saw this person in a
shopping mall would you look the other way or greet them.
He believes that if the investment does go wrong and most investments in
start-ups do go wrong, do you really want to spend that time working with
someone you don’t actually like.
2. The experts view

16. 3. Hackathons
A great way to spend time with someone you are thinking of working with in the
future is to attend a hackathon. A hackathon is a gathering where developers,
designers, marketers and entrepreneurs come together to work on projects and
come up with a business ideas over a short period of time, usually over a
weekend.
By spending a short and intense amount of time together is a great way of
accessing each other strengths and weaknesses to see if there’s a good
working relationships.

17. Final Thoughts

18. --Ken Blanchard
"None of us is as smart as all of us."

19. Final Thoughts

20. If you work in a business or a start-up where things don’t always go the way
you’d expect them. Read this book; making teams work involves a considerable
investment of time and energy.
Because as human beings we are complicated and flawed but by using this
simple framework, it is possible you can get your team rowing in the same
direction.
By getting everyone working in the same direction you can monopolize any
industry, in any market against any competition.

21. Thanks For watching & lets connect!
Twitter @neilp666
www.neilpatel.co
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable - Patrick M. Lencioni
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0787960756/ref=rdr_ext_tmb