Author Patrick Lencioni became famous in management circles with his 5 Dysfunctions of a Team model, and he increased his popularity with the new Working Genius assessment. But rather than resting on his laurels, Lencioni is promoting one of his books from 1998.
Lencioni is giving his fable The Five Temptations of a CEO, a new life. Through an email campaign and a podcast episode titled “The Forgotten First Book,” he has revived interest in the publication and shared resources showing its relevance 25 years later.
Maybe you can follow Lencioni’s lead and dust off some of your earlier resources to share again. While much has changed in the organizational world, the fundamentals have remained the same and may still be applicable today. Seemingly everything that’s old is new again — use the trend to your advantage and breathe new life into some of your classics.
P. S. Lencioni’s Five Temptations are: status over results, popularity over accountability, certainty over clarity, harmony over conflict, and invulnerability over trust. Yes, definitely still relevant!
