<aside> 💡 Book worms, the following (in no particular order) are some of the best books you can read to support your New Ways of Working journey. Each and every title here is excellent - enjoy!
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📕 Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes | by Margaret Heffernan
A powerful manifesto for CEOs and managers alike, Beyond Measure reveals how organizations can make huge changes with surprisingly small steps. In this book, Heffernan looks back over decades spent overseeing different organizations and comes to a counterintuitive conclusion: it's the small shifts that have the greatest impact.
📗 The Emotionally Intelligent Office | by School of Life
Modern businesses place huge emphasis on technical training, yet a lot of what determines the success or failure of an organisation has nothing to do with the traditional 'hard' skills taught at business school, but rather the sophisticated 'soft' skills that are key to emotional maturity. The Emotionally Intelligent Office introduces us to twenty core emotional skills that can help businesses and individuals to flourish.
📘 Moose Heads on the Table: Stories about self-managing organisations from Sweden | by Karin Tenelius & Lisa Gill
What does leadership look like in a company with no bosses? How do you develop a culture that allows self-managing organisations to thrive? What mindset and relational shifts are required? Rather than looking at complicated frameworks and models, this book reveals a perspective of organisational transformation based on the simple but powerful premise of facilitating different kinds of dialogues.
📙 The Leader Lab | by Tania Luna & LeeAnn Renninger, PhD
Combining research, tools, and a playful, fluff-free style, The Leader Lab aims to teach you how to quickly finetune your coaching, productivity, feedback, one-on-one, strategic thinking, meeting facilitation, people development, and leading change skills. The Leader Lab is a high-speed leadership intensive, equipping managers with the Swiss Army Knife of skills that help you handle the toughest situations that come your way.
📕 Wilding Organisations: A ramble about human growth at work | by Jon Barnes (a free PDF book)
Mono-culture, a lack of diversity, the exploitation of precious resources... these are just some of the ways in which we’re causing huge damage to not only the natural world, but to human nature in the workplace. The human instinct to interfere is the root cause of both these catastrophes. Yet, it also points us towards the simplest of possible solutions: to get out the way.
📗 Going Horizontal: Creating a Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time | by Samantha Slade
Now more than ever, successful organizations must respond quickly and nimbly to change - they need every employee’s best thinking. Self-management expert Sam Slade presents seven practical, proven and incremental approaches to help your organization create a more dynamic structure and develop a horizontal organization. The result will be enhanced creativity, great growth, increased employee retention, productivity, and resilience.
📘 Lead Together | by Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield & Travis Marsh
Despite the advent of disruptive technologies that have upended the business landscape, the structure of most companies remains largely unchanged, with traditional top-down leadership still the norm. Couldn’t there be a better way to organize work that reflects our modern world - one with nimble, invested leaders rather than disengaged employees? Lead Together teaches you key principles and methods to transform top-down leadership into dynamic human systems of shared responsibility and accountability.
📙 Brave New Work | by Aaron Dignan
Aaron Dignan helps teams around the world completely reinvent their operating systems—the fundamental principles and practices that shape their culture—with extraordinary success. He helps them see that organizations aren't machines to be predicted and controlled. They're complex human systems full of potential waiting to be released. In Brave New Work, you'll learn exactly how to reinvent the way you work, not through top-down mandates, but through a groundswell of autonomy, trust, and transparency.
📕 Corporate Rebels: make work more fun | by Joost Minnaar & Pim de Morree
8 radical lessons from 100 of the world's most inspiring companies. Today's workplaces are broken. Badly broken. With 85% of employees disengaged, 23% feeling burned out and 37% believing that their job makes no useful contribution to society, work as we know it today is simply not working. This book is for people who know workplaces could, and should, be better. Whether you're in the leadership team, a rebel who has been suppressed by corporate dogma or a manager who is trapped in the broken system.