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Pat Lencioni and his team's work over two decades summarized into one book. The other books are more engaging and personally a better learning experience. But this is a great checklist or quick reminder. Eminently relevant to anyone who's involved in organisations, not just executives (although this is his perspective all the way through - would be nice to see him write more from the perspective of employees, members or other folks in organizations that are lower on the ladder).

A more up-to-date prognosis of climate change than Lynas' Six Degrees from 2007.

This is a summary of all the author's previous books condensed into summaries of each topic. There's no fictional fable. So a good playbook or checklist for organizational health in Lencioni's understanding.

Intellectual history not as a history of big men with ideas without any context

I agree with the reviews that say this book could be shortened. The overall point is strong and powerful and can be summarized in a few pages. But the book doesn't get dull and Gawande's examples are usually fitting, if not just enjoyable or easy to read over. This book did not frustrate me because of its length and I sweeped through it in a matter of days. I think we can allow books that have a potentially world-changing point to make to give them some space. I was a big believer in checklists coming in to this book, but I didn't know it. Know I have the self-understanding too and a lot of great lessons on how to make checklists work better.

Recommended book in the same vain: Work Clean bookwyrm.social/book/178110/s/work-clean