Excerpt from this monograph:

"Bestselling author and executive business consultant Patrick Lencioni is on to something. In his book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, he explains why business teams of all kinds fail. More importantly, he explains what they need to do to succeed. Though I haven’t yet met Lencioni, I credit him with the idea for the title of this essay. The idea of writing something about school board dysfunctions has been percolating in my mind for some time. As a superintendent of schools in the private sector for twelve years and as a charter school board member the past several years, I have often had a front row seat to the dysfunctional things school boards do. Not that board dysfunction is limited to schools: I have also witnessed dysfunctional behavior as a member of other governing boards. All told, my hands-on experience—or should I say, my seats-on experience—with boards presently totals something in excess of twenty years."