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A review by zabeishumanish
The 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni
3.5
Reading this book was more of a rollercoaster than any amusement park ride I've ever been on. This was a ride! I had a wildly fun time reading this book, but not at all for the reasons the author would want. For the LOLs, the shits, and the gigs this book was so fun.
I'm highly confident Patrick Lencioni didn't write this book, and that it was completed by a ghostwriter. I have nothing but respect for ghostwriters and their craft, but a book serving your cult of personality is a bold choice. It isn't just that the ghostwriting doesn't serve the self-help memoir genre well, but also that the quality of the ghostwriting is too poor to even passably be believable. In general, the writing is badly done.
The working genius model does seem super useful for any kind of work that is frequently conducted in teams. Any model that requires so much of the author's backstory to understand it though, is something I am immediately suspicious of.
Beyond the poor ghostwriting, I don't think I have much I can say to review this. The reading journal notes I took while reading may give you some semblance of the experience of reading this book;
38%
This book is psychotic, so so deep into cult of personality shit, but like corporate America cult of personality shit. This book is just "what-if-a-cult-of-personality-developed-in-a-corporate-American-office-company?".
57%
WHY IS THIS CULT OF PERSONALITY SO FUCKING CUTE!!?!?!??!?!??! THEY HAVE NAMES FOR THE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF MEMBERSHIP LEVEL IN THE CORPORATE OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!! (LITTLES!!!!!) IT IS JUST SO CLASSICALLY FUCKING CULTISH IN SUCH A CUTE LITTLE CORPORATE AMERICAN CULT OF PERSONALITY!!!!!!!
82%
God damn. Why do I believe in the cult-of-personality-man's Model of Working Geniuses right now!?! Why does cult-man's corporate structure of group-work model make sense to me!? God damn it, I'm sold on cult-man's concepts now.
I'm highly confident Patrick Lencioni didn't write this book, and that it was completed by a ghostwriter. I have nothing but respect for ghostwriters and their craft, but a book serving your cult of personality is a bold choice. It isn't just that the ghostwriting doesn't serve the self-help memoir genre well, but also that the quality of the ghostwriting is too poor to even passably be believable. In general, the writing is badly done.
The working genius model does seem super useful for any kind of work that is frequently conducted in teams. Any model that requires so much of the author's backstory to understand it though, is something I am immediately suspicious of.
Beyond the poor ghostwriting, I don't think I have much I can say to review this.
38%
This book is psychotic, so so deep into cult of personality shit, but like corporate America cult of personality shit. This book is just "what-if-a-cult-of-personality-developed-in-a-corporate-American-office-company?".
57%
WHY IS THIS CULT OF PERSONALITY SO FUCKING CUTE!!?!?!??!?!??! THEY HAVE NAMES FOR THE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF MEMBERSHIP LEVEL IN THE CORPORATE OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!! (LITTLES!!!!!) IT IS JUST SO CLASSICALLY FUCKING CULTISH IN SUCH A CUTE LITTLE CORPORATE AMERICAN CULT OF PERSONALITY!!!!!!!
82%
God damn. Why do I believe in the cult-of-personality-man's Model of Working Geniuses right now!?! Why does cult-man's corporate structure of group-work model make sense to me!? God damn it, I'm sold on cult-man's concepts now.