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Culture, teams and people

Books on organisational culture, change, teams, hiring, motivation, self-management and employee and family ownership.

69 books on Culture, teams and people, 4 of them tier 1, recommended by 85 people including Mohnish Pabrai and Tony Hsieh.

69 books · 91 experts

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  1. The Great Game of BusinessJack Stack, Bo Burlingham, 1992
  2. Managing the Professional Service FirmDavid H. Maister, 1993
  3. Generation to GenerationKelin E. Gersick, John A. Davis, Marion McCollom Hampton, Ivan Lansberg, 1997
  4. Creativity, Inc.Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace, 2014
  5. Organizational Culture and LeadershipEdgar H. Schein, 1985

The best books on Culture, teams and people 69

Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham · 1992
Open-book management at SRC; the founding text of employee ownership practice.
David H. Maister · 1993
Leverage, utilisation and the partnership arithmetic. Still the core text.
Kelin E. Gersick, John A. Davis, Marion McCollom Hampton, Ivan Lansberg · 1997
The three-circle model; the founding text of family-business study.
Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace · 2014
Pixar's president on running a creative company without killing it
“On his Shopify startup-books list for building a durable culture of creativity and originality.”Tobi Lütke
Edgar H. Schein · 1985
The standard academic model of how culture is formed and changed.
John L. Ward · 1987
Growth, succession and ownership planning; the field's first practical manual.
David H. Maister · 1997
The follow-on: what sustains a firm whose assets go home at night.
Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham · 2002
The follow-on on building an ownership culture, not just an ESOP.
John L. Ward · 2004
Fifty lessons from long-lived family firms.
Daniel H. Pink · 2009
Autonomy, mastery and purpose against pay-for-performance assumptions
“In his excellent book, Drive, Dan Pink distinguishes between algorithmic tasks and heuristic tasks.”Michael Mauboussin
Tony Hsieh · 2010
Zappos: service as the customer-acquisition budget.
Mary Kay Ash · 1984
Founder's own account of recruiting and holding a commissioned sales force.
Ken Iverson · 1997
Nucor's chief executive on flat structure, incentive pay and minimills
“Another great builder of our time was Kenneth Iverson. In just a few decades, Iverson transformed a small, nearly bankrupt company into the largest and most profitable steel company in the U.S…”Francois Rochon
Recommended byFrancois Rochon
Joseph R. Blasi, Douglas L. Kruse, Aaron Bernstein · 2003
Broad-based stock options and what they did to company performance.
Corey Rosen, John Case, Martin Staubus · 2005
The NCEO's evidence on when shared ownership raises performance.
David Erdal · 2011
An owner who converted his own firm, on employee ownership in practice.
Corey Rosen, John Case · 2022
Current survey of ESOPs, worker co-ops and employee trusts.
Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey · 2016
Kegan and Lahey argue that most organizations are 'second nature' — places where people spend enormous energy managing impressions and hiding weaknesses. Deliberately Developmental Organizations build learning into daily work. A challenging read that sits at the furthest edge of what most organizations are ready for.
Recommended byTony HsiehRay Dalio
Daniel Coyle · 2018
Coyle examines high-performing groups — SEAL teams, Pixar, the San Antonio Spurs — to identify the three skills that build strong cultures: building safety, sharing vulnerability, and establishing purpose. The research is descriptive rather than prescriptive, which makes it more credible than most culture books.
Patrick Lencioni · 2002
Lencioni's model — absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, inattention to results — is a diagnostic checklist as much as a theory. The fable format makes it fast to read, and the pyramid structure helps teams identify which dysfunction is upstream of the others.
John P. Kotter · 1996
Recommended byMohnish Pabrai
Fred Kofman · 2002
Values-based management from a coach used across technology companies
Tom DeMarco · 2002
T4 Peak
Chip Conley · 2007
Recommended byTony Hsieh
T4 Who
Geoff Smart · 2008
David Sibbet · 2012
Recommended byAndy Budd
Dan Ariely · 2016
Recommended byTim FerrissAlfred Lin
Ray Dalio · 2017
Insider: the founder's own statement of the management system.
“Dalio's own synthesis of 40 years of pattern-recognition at Bridgewater. He describes it as the operating manual he wishes he'd had at 25 — a set of tested rules for decision-making under uncertainty, drawn from his own mistakes as much as his successes.”Ray Dalio
Ram Charan · 2018
Recommended byKeith Rabois
Aaron Dignan · 2019
Recommended bySheryl Sandberg
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer · 2020
Insider account by the co-founder and CEO of the Netflix culture.
“Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer on Netflix's culture of radical candor and high talent density. Hoffman has referenced this as the clearest articulation of how to build an organization that can scale without bureaucratic drag.”Reid Hoffman
Brent D. Peterson, Gaylan W. Nielson
Recommended byTony Hsieh
T4 Fish
Stephen C. Lundin et al. · 2011
Dave Gray et al.
Recommended byAndy Budd
Brian Johnson
Edward Hess
Recommended byRay Dalio
Reid Hoffman · 2014
Subtitled 'Managing Talent in the Networked Age'

Experts 91

The people who wrote this page's books, and the people who recommend them.

Authors 12

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Patrick Lencioniwrote 3 books here
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Ricardo Semlerwrote 2 books here
Ben Horowitzwrote 1 book hereRay Daliowrote 1 book hereDan Arielywrote 1 book hereEd Catmullwrote 1 book hereReid Hoffmanwrote 1 book here
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William Poundstonewrote 1 book here
David Heinemeier Hanssonwrote 1 book here
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Jason Friedwrote 1 book here
Reed Hastingswrote 1 book hereTony Hsiehwrote 1 book here

Recommenders 85

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Mohnish Pabrairecommends 18 books here
Tony Hsiehrecommends 11 books hereMatt Mullenwegrecommends 6 books hereSimon Sinekrecommends 4 books hereAlfred Linrecommends 4 books hereChangpeng Zhaorecommends 4 books here
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David Cancelrecommends 4 books here
Ev Williamsrecommends 4 books herePatrick Collisonrecommends 4 books hereTim Ferrissrecommends 4 books here
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Michael Mauboussinrecommends 3 books here
Ray Daliorecommends 3 books here
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Nat Eliasonrecommends 3 books here
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