Picture the most talented leadership team you have ever assembled. Marquee CVs, the right logos, a product the market actually wants. Now picture them in a room, nodding politely at a strategy that half of them privately doubt. Nobody says it out loud. The meeting ends on time. The quarter ends in a miss.

If that scene made you even slightly uncomfortable, Patrick Lencioni wrote this book for you.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is barely 200 pages, reads like a novel, and has quietly reorganised the way I think about almost every founding team and CXO group I work with across India's growth-stage ecosystem. Here is why I keep returning to it, and the uncomfortable questions it should raise for anyone scaling a company right now.