Trying to strengthen your organisation’s distinctive culture? Thinking about how to show examples of great teams and their culture? Puzzled by how to make your values come alive through concrete frameworks?
Use this list of books, tools, and frameworks as inspirations and mechanisms.
Resilience and Uncertainty
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Amazon link)
Decisive (Amazon link)
The Checklist Manifesto (Amazon link)
The Black Swan (Amazon link)
Fooled by Randomness (Amazon link)
Antifragile (Amazon link)
Nudge (Amazon link)
Adapt (Amazon link)
Innovation
The Innovator's DNA (Amazon link)
The Innovator's Dilemma (Amazon link)
Crossing the Chasm (Amazon link)
The Art of Innovation (Amazon link)
For The Win (Amazon link)
Reinventing Organisations (Amazon link)
The Innovator’s Method Amazon link
Thinkertoys (Amazon link)
The Evolution of Everything (Amazon link)
Innovating Women (Amazon link)
Creativity (Amazon link)
The Design of Everyday Things (Amazon link)
Purpose, Delight, and Communication
Made to Stick (Amazon link)
Contagious (Amazon link)
Start with Why (Amazon link)
Influence (Amazon link)
The Purple Cow (Amazon link)
Alchemy (Amazon link)
The Power of Moments (Amazon link)
Impossible to Ignore (Amazon link)
Productivity and Change
Switch (Amazon link)
The Power of Habit (Amazon link)
Atomic Habits (Amazon link)
The One Thing (Amazon link)
Tools of Titans (Amazon link)
Deep Work (Amazon link)
Tiny Habits (Amazon link)
Transforming Culture
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (Amazon link)
The Talent Code (Amazon link)
Measure What Matters (Amazon link)
Good to Great (Amazon link)
The Messy Middle (Amazon link)
Finding Purpose at Work
Flourish (Amazon link)
Drive (Amazon link)
Strengths Finder (Amazon link)
Flow (Amazon link)
Peak (Amazon link)
Grit (Amazon link)
Mindset (Amazon link)
Wait (Amazon link)
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Amazon link)
Triggers (Amazon link)
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor (Amazon link)
Status Anxiety (Amazon link)
The Peter Principle (Amazon link)
Thin Slices of Anxiety (Amazon link)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Amazon link)
The Architecture of Happiness (Amazon link)
Homo Deus (Amazon link)
The Little Book of Hygge (Amazon link)
Range (Amazon link)
Biographies & History
Accidental Presidents (Amazon link)
The Anarchy (Amazon link)
Salt (Amazon link)
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Amazon link)
The Ride of a Lifetime (Amazon link)
The Man Who Solved the Market (Amazon link)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Amazon link)
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Amazon link)
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth (Amazon link)
Steve Jobs (Amazon link)
Hidden Figures (Amazon link)
Invisible Women (Amazon link)
Leonardo Da Vinci (Amazon link)