Pat Lencioni explained that he wrote the title to clarify the humble, hungry, and smart traits needed to hire the right people for a team. The discussion highlighted these three essential virtues as a practical framework for building effective teams. The hosts presented the book as a valuable guide for leaders seeking to improve hiring and teamwork.
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Pat said he later authored The Ideal Team Player to explain the humble, hungry, and smart traits needed to hire the right people for a team.
author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Ideal Team Player.
Then we realized a few years later, oh there was this other idea that if you want to hire people that fit on teams, you really need the ideal team player, which is to be humble, hungry, and smart. So I wrote that book.