SV Monthly Book Club
Book of the month:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Patrick Lencioni
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2022 | 7:00pm - 8:00pmLocation: VirtualHost: Marc Scotchlas |
Book Selection for January:
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how team members would challenge her in ways that no one ever had before.
For twenty years, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been engaging audiences with a page-turning, realistic fable that follows the travails of Kathryn Petersen, DecisionTech’s CEO, as she faces the ultimate leadership crisis. She must unite a team in such disarray that it threatens to derail the entire company.
Equal parts leadership fable and business handbook, this definitive source on teamwork by Patrick Lencioni reveals the five behavioral tendencies that go to the heart of why even the best teams struggle. He offers a powerful model and step-by-step guide for overcoming those dysfunctions and getting every one rowing in the same direction.
Today, the lessons in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team are more relevant than ever. This special anniversary edition celebrates one of the best-selling business books of all time with a new foreword from the author that reflects on its legacy and lessons.
Registration
To attend the discussion forum, please pre-register (for free) and be sure you have pre-read the book of the month. Registration is necessary as we are limiting the gathering to 15 attendees, so that everyone has a chance to express their opinion and listen to others.
About the Event Leader
Marc Scotchlas will be the event leader and discussion moderator
Registration
- Required and limited to 15 attendees. First come first serve.
- Zoom link to be distributed to registrants on the day of the event.
Additional Information
EventLeader: Marc Scotchlas
PDU: Up to 5.0 PDU to complete the pre-reading; 1.0 to participate in the monthly meeting. PDU claim code available to attendees at end of event.
Event Date | 01-19-2023 7:00 pm |
Event End Date | 01-19-2023 8:00 pm |
Individual Price | FREE |
No. of Power Skills PDUs | 1.0 |
PMI Event Number | Event code to be shared at the end of presentation |
Location | Zoom (Virtual) |
Book of the month:
Rocket
Model: Practical Advice for Building High
Performing Teams
by Gordon
Curphy, Robert Hogan
Date: Thursday, February16, 2022 | 7:00pm - 8:00pmLocation: VirtualHost: Marc Scotchlas |
Book Selection for February:
The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams by Gordon Curphy, Robert Hogan
Our work with hundreds of public and private sector groups and teams across the United States and Europe suggests that leaders need a practical, well researched model for team building. The Rocket Model provides leaders with sound practical advice on how to improve group and team dynamics. The model is both descriptive and prescriptive it can be used to diagnose team functioning and make specific recommendations regarding how to launch new teams or to improve the performance of more established teams.
Registration
To attend the discussion forum, please pre-register (for free) and be sure you have pre-read the book of the month. Registration is necessary as we are limiting the gathering to 15 attendees, so that everyone has a chance to express their opinion and listen to others.
About the Event Leader
Marc Scotchlas will be the event leader and discussion moderator
Registration
- Required and limited to 15 attendees. First come first serve.
- Zoom link to be distributed to registrants on the day of the event.
Additional Information
EventLeader: Marc Scotchlas
PDU: Up to 5.0 PDU to complete the pre-reading; 1.0 to participate in the monthly meeting. PDU claim code available to attendees at end of event.
Event Date | 02-16-2023 7:00 pm |
Event End Date | 02-16-2023 8:00 pm |
Individual Price | FREE |
No. of Power Skills PDUs | 1.0 |
PMI Event Number | Event code to be shared at the end of presentation |
Location | Zoom (Virtual) |
Book of the month:
Death by
Meeting
by Patrick Lencioni
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2022 | 7:00pm - 8:00pmLocation: VirtualHost: Marc Scotchlas |
Book Selection for March:
Death By Meeting - A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life. In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company he had built from scratch. “How could my life have unraveled so quickly?” he wondered.
In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary.
Casey McDaniel, the founder and CEO of Yip Software, is in the midst of a problem he created, but one he doesn’t know how to solve. And he doesn’t know where or who to turn to for advice. His staff can’t help him; they’re as
dumbfounded as he is by their tortuous meetings.
Then an unlikely advisor, Will Peterson, enters Casey’s world. When he proposes an unconventional, even radical, approach to solving the meeting problem, Casey is just desperate enough to listen.
As in his other books, Lencioni provides a framework for his groundbreaking model, and makes it applicable to the real world. Death by Meeting is nothing short of a blueprint for leaders who want to eliminate waste and frustration among their teams and create environments of engagement and passion.
Registration
To attend the discussion forum, please pre-register (for free) and be sure you have pre-read the book of the month. Registration is necessary as we are limiting the gathering to 15 attendees, so that everyone has a chance to express their opinion and listen to others.
About the Event Leader
Marc Scotchlas will be the event leader and discussion moderator
Registration
- Required and limited to 15 attendees. First come first serve.
- Zoom link to be distributed to registrants on the day of the event.
Additional Information
EventLeader: Marc Scotchlas
PDU: Up to 5.0 PDU to complete the pre-reading; 1.0 to participate in the monthly meeting. PDU claim code available to attendees at end of event.
Event Date | 03-16-2023 7:00 pm |
Event End Date | 03-16-2023 8:00 pm |
Individual Price | FREE |
No. of Power Skills PDUs | 1.0 |
PMI Event Number | Event code to be shared at the end of presentation |
Location | Zoom (Virtual) |
Book of the month:
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone
Date: Thursday, December 15, 2022 | 7:00pm - 8:00pmLocation: VirtualHost: Marc Scotchlas |
Book Selection for December:
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone
Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It’s almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos’s Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder. In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an “excellent” (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself—who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids. Definitive, timely, and “engaging” (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn’t imagine modern life without.
Registration
To attend the discussion forum, please pre-register (for free) and be sure you have pre-read the book of the month. Registration is necessary as we are limiting the gathering to 15 attendees, so that everyone has a chance to express their opinion and listen to others.
About the Event Leader
Marc Scotchlas will be the event leader and discussion moderator
Registration
- Required and limited to 15 attendees. First come first serve.
- Zoom link to be distributed to registrants on the day of the event.
Additional Information
EventLeader: Marc Scotchlas
PDU: Up to 5.0 PDU to complete the pre-reading; 1.0 to participate in the monthly meeting. PDU claim code available to attendees at end of event.
Event Date | 12-15-2022 7:00 pm |
Event End Date | 12-15-2022 8:00 pm |
Individual Price | FREE |
No. of Power Skills PDUs | 1.0 |
PMI Event Number | Event code to be shared at the end of presentation |
Location | Zoom |
Book of the month:
How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023 | 7:00pm - 8:00pmLocation: VirtualHost: Marc Scotchlas |
Book Selection for March:
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago as proven technology executives. At the time, the company was already well-known for doing things differently, reflecting the visionary-and frequently contrarian-principles of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. If Eric and Jonathan were going to succeed, they realized they would have to relearn everything they thought they knew about management and business.
Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. How Google Works is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Eric and Jonathan learned as they helped build the company. The authors explain how technology has shifted the balance of power from companies to consumers, and that the only way to succeed in this ever-changing landscape is to create superior products and attract a new breed of multifaceted employees whom Eric and Jonathan dub "smart creatives."
Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims ("Consensus requires dissension," "Exile knaves but fight for divas," "Think 10X, not 10%") with numerous insider anecdotes from Google's history, many of which are shared here for the first time.
In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works explains how to do just that.
About the SV Monthly Book Club : Register Here
The SV Monthly Book Club is a no-cost forum to discuss books and publications that touch on various topics about project and program management. It recurs on the 3rd Thursday each month, virtually. There is no club membership, and anyone can join the discussion forum of the month. To attend the forum, please pre-register (for free) and be sure you have pre-read the book of the month. Registration is necessary as we are limiting the number of attendees, so that everyone has a chance to express their opinion and listen to others.
This is a professional event. While we are open to opinions from all angles during the book discussions, please be respectful to the host and all attendees.
About the Event Leader
Marc Scotchlas is the event leader and discussion moderator
Registration
- Required and limiting attendees. First come first serve.
- Zoom link to be distributed to registrants on the day of the event. Look for a Zoom invitation the day of the event from scotchlas@gmail.com. Feel free to set that not to go to your junk mail.
Additional Information
Event Leader: Marc Scotchlas {Click here to contact Marc}
PDU: Up to 5.0 PDU to complete the pre-reading; 1.0 to participate in the monthly meeting. PDU claim code available to attendees at end of event.
Recognize that PDU credit may be partial if you've read only the part of the book that you will read, or that full credit can be taken later after the discussion event is complete and you have completed the entire book. There's no drop-dead requirement by the discussion date for reading, but the discussion is much fuller if you've read the entire book.
Speakers
Marc Scotchlas - Event Host
Shot Director at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Marc served a career in the Navy prior to joining Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2018, serving as Shot Director at the National Ignition Facility. Managing operations at the world’s premier laser facility that is leading the way to ignition and solving humanity’s energy needs has been his passion since. Residing in the Bay area and perpetually expanding his horizons has been his pastime.
Event Date | 04-20-2023 7:00 pm |
Event End Date | 04-20-2023 8:00 pm |
Cut off date | 04-19-2023 |
Individual Price | FREE |