Summary of Patrick M. Lencioni's The Truth About Employee Engagement

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview:#1 When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.

#2 When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment manufacturer in the central valley, she insisted that her friend recommend Brian as a candidate for the job.

#3 JMJ was a small company that had survived by tapping into the cheap labor in the area. It had never really grown much beyond that, and its founder and original CEO decided he had enough. Brian was hired to turn things around.

#4 JMJ was a solid company, with no debt, and plenty of cash in the bank. However, two paragraphs in the Wall Street Journal announced that Nike was thinking about entering the market for exercise equipment. That was the precursor to an earthquake that would ultimately lead to the company being acquired by a brand name conglomerate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669352785

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#1

When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.

#2

When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment manufacturer in the central valley, she insisted that her friend recommend Brian as a candidate for the job.

#3

JMJ was a small company that had survived by tapping into the cheap labor in the area. It had never really grown much beyond that, and its founder and original CEO decided he had enough. Brian was hired to turn things around.

#4

JMJ was a solid company, with no debt, and plenty of cash in the bank. However, two paragraphs in the Wall Street Journal announced that Nike was thinking about entering the market for exercise equipment. That was the precursor to an earthquake that would ultimately lead to the company being acquired by a brand name conglomerate.

#5

After reading the Wall Street Journal article, Brian and his board numbly came to the conclusion that they would have to sell JMJ. They called one of their friends at an investment bank in San Francisco and asked him to