{"id":2411,"date":"2017-08-03T13:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T11:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2020-05-10T08:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T12:53:01","slug":"the-advantage-of-a-book-discussion-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2017\/08\/03\/the-advantage-of-a-book-discussion-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advantage of a book discussion club"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business <\/a>is a book by Patrick Lencioni. This one is not a business novel, like The Five Dysfunctions of a Team<\/a> (you may have read that previous post).<\/p>\n

The book purpose is to explain a model to bring organizational health.<\/p>\n

I will not enter into the details of the book itself as you can read a summary here<\/a>. The goal of that post is to explain how we used that book with a leadership team I work with.<\/p>\n

I like to read books, so I usually recommend books to read to others. I am using some books as the theme for retreat meetings for teams. I used the Five Dysfunction of a Team for the first meeting of that leadership team.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, one other reader in the group, shared his reading notes on The Practice of Management by Peter Druker<\/a> and proposed actions based on what he learned in the book. The results were good, and this fosters the idea to organize a book discussion club. The first book we chose: The Advantage. The book club was organized the day before the quarterly meeting of the leadership team.<\/p>\n

And so we used the book as an introduction to our meeting, as a warm up for the retrospective. And also decided to answer the 6 questions below as a way to prepare our review of our Objectives and Key Results.<\/p>\n

1. Why do we exist?<\/strong> The answer to this question will yield a core purpose or the fundamental reason the company is in business.
\n2. How do we behave?<\/strong> This question examines behaviors and values required for success.
\n3. What do we do?<\/strong> This answer provides a simple, direct explanation of the business.
\n4. How will we succeed?<\/strong> This question requires the team members to develop a strategy.
\n5. What is most important, right now?<\/strong> The answer to this question is the establishment of a unifying thematic goal and action plan.
\n6. Who must do what?<\/strong> This question addresses roles and responsibilities.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, I can say that this was a really effective meeting, and we already chose the next book: Competing Against Luck<\/a> from Clayton Christensen.<\/p>\n

Something to try with your team?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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