Patrick Lencioni, a consultant and business writer, is the author of several bestselling career advice books. I have to admit, though, that I find the overwhelming majority of business books boring as dirt. Sometimes I come across one I like and want to feature on the site, but so often they’re written in this weird stilted business-speak and are full of MBA lingo. Plus, as a young woman, the least cool thing I could possibly be seen reading on the subway is a career advice book or self-help book – that’s why Megan Hustad wrote How to Be Useful about the stigma of ’success literature.’ That said, Lencioni found a great way to keep the ideas and concepts of his business books relevant and interesting – he teamed up with illustrator Kensuke Okabayashi to turn one of his tomes – The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – into a manga.
The result? Pretty darn awesome. Instead of relying on graphs, charts, lists, or just endless pages of dense prose, the manga uses not only illustration but a narrative to explain its concepts. The executives in the story are characters – they have facial expressions, outfits that give hints to their personalities, and relatable emotions. Even though they’re throwing around buzzwords and having arguments about strategy, I found the book interesting because of its use of actual people, as opposed to boring “types” or generic descriptions. In fact, quite a few of the characters reminded me of people I’ve worked with in the past.
If you want to read a career advice book and not get totally made fun of on the morning commute, I can’t recommend The Five Dysfunctions of a Team highly enough.
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