Welcome to It's a Good Life Podcast where it's all about helping entrepreneurs think,

feel and do better. Here's your host, Brian Bafini.

Welcome to It's a Good Life and we're going to cover our second installment with the great

Pat Lensione. Pat's been going over his fantastic content, the five dysfunctions of a team

of book that sold six million copies. And of course, along the last few years Pat's

been teaching and working with major corporations so that he really has taken this content

even beyond what was in the book. Why we're so excited to have him in person at our team

conference in September. We covered the first three dysfunctions and absence of trust,

the fear of conflict and the lack of commitment. I can see the pyramid building. I understand

it's one's built on the next. So once we have the commitment, then we can get into the

fourth one, which is accountability. So speak to that if you will.

Also, and here's how it connects. If people don't think their teammates are really

bought in, why in the world would they hold them accountable? If they knew they went to

the meeting and not it and smiled and didn't really buy in, why would they turn to them

a week later, a month later and go, Hey, you're not doing what you agreed to do. Now, notice

what I just said though, Brian, what peers turning to one another and holding them accountable.

When it comes to accountability on a team, peer pressure is the best thing. It's not

the leader. The leader needs to be the ultimate source of accountability, but not the primary

source on the on the greatest teams sports or anything else. People don't go to the coach

or the leader and say, Hey, Bob's not doing what he said or Mary is not doing what she

said. They go to each other and go, Hey, Bob, Mary, what's going on? That's how it works.

That's effective. It's efficient. It builds teamwork. But if they didn't commit, if there's

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