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Blog entries for Tuesday, 08 September 2026

Software

Balancing the "First Team" and Functional Delivery from the C-Suite to the Director Layer

I'm in a book club at work that is reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. This is the fifth time I've been at a company that is reading it, and I'm really curious what sorts of change I'll see as a result. For those unfamiliar, the book outlines a core premise of healthy organizational design: a leader’s primary loyalty must belong to their peer group, their "First Team", rather than the vertical organization they lead. At the executive level, this means the C-Suite and VPs
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