recommended reading
Books that we recommend you consider reading, relating to teams, leadership and individual development. Starred books are our ‘must reads’.
recommended reading
books on organisation, teams and culture
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Klaus Schwab
Reinventing Organisations
Frederic Laloux
Work Rules!
Laszlo Bock
Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed
Brave New Work
Aaron Dignan
Up the organization
Robert Townsend
Tribes
Seth Godin
Rebel Ideas
Matthew Syed
The New Rational Manager
Charles Kepner, Ben Tregoe
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
The Fearless Organisation
Amy Edmonson
What you do is who you are
Ben Horowitz
The Tyranny of Metrics
Jerry Z Muller
Start with Why
Simon Sinek
books on leadership
7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change
Ester Derby
Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
Servant Leadership in Action
Ken Blanchard, Renee Broadwell
The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management
Steve Denning
Turn the Ship Around
David Marquet
The Goal
Eliyahu M Goldratt
Daring Greatly
Brene Brown
Leadership and Self-Deception
Arbinger Institute
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
Radical Candor
Kimm Scott
Contempt to Curiosity
Caitlin Walker
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
People over Profit
Dale Partridge
Dynamic Reteaming
Heidi Helfand
Stealing from the Future
Neil Crofts / Mark Thompson
Leadership on the Line
Ronald A. Heifetz / Martin Linsky
The Hidden Power of Social Networks
Rob Cross / Andrew Parker
Fish!
Stephen C. Lundin / John Christensen / Harry Paul / Ken Blanchard
books on individual development and motivation
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Linchpin
Seth Godin
Can’t Hurt Me
David Goggins
Never Split The Difference
Chris Voss
The Alter Ego Effect
Todd Herman
The Art of Possibility
Rosamund / Benjamin Zander
books on agility and lean thinking
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Agile Culture
Pollyanna Pixton, Paul Gibson
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
Site Reliability Engineering
Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Petoff, Chris Jones, Niall Richard Murphy
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Agile Transformation
Neil Perkin
Thinking in Systems
Donella H Meadows
Obliquity
John Kay
books on psychology and neuroscience
The Chimp Paradox
Dr Steve Peters
Busy
Tony Crabbe
Your Brain at Work
David Rock
Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Drive
Daniel H Pink
Mindset
Carol Dweck
The Source
Dr Tara Swart