Workplace Culture

Too many workplaces are driven by cynicism, paranoia, and self-interest. But the best ones foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a "Circle of Safety" that separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside....

The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor - avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy - you can be kind and clear at the same time....

Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life....

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more....

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth - and how it can help any organization thrive....

Dramatically improve workplace relationships simply by learning your coworkers’ language of appreciation. This book will give you the tools to improve staff moral, create a more positive workplace, and increase employee engagement.... 

With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world....

The retired four-star general and and best-selling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model. Former General Stanley McChrystal held a key position for much of the War on Terror, as head of the Joint Special Operations Command....

From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences....

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life....

Tony Hsieh - CEO of Zappos, the online shoe retailer - explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees....

Vivid Vision is a revolutionary tool that will help owners, CEOs, and senior managers create inspirational, detailed, and actionable three-year mission statements for their companies....

Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns....

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you....

Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she developed a class on how to be a good boss....

The Outward Mindset teaches listeners how to shift more fully to an outward mindset and how to help others, even whole organizations, to make that shift - a shift that sparks innovation....

Having recently stepped down as chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Hubert Joly shares the leadership principles illustrated by multiple vivid and concrete stories that underpinned the remarkable resurgence of Best Buy and that he believes are at the heart of business....

Self-made billionaire Sam Zell consistently sees what others don't....

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist and modern management expert, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times....

Become a next-generation leader - rich in emotional and social intelligence and orchestrating outstanding collaborative results - by mastering these eight status quo-shattering paradoxes....

Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs....

From New York Times best-selling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inbox - and unleashing a new era of productivity....

If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you....

Drawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, best-selling author George Leonard shows how the process of mastery can help us attain a higher level of excellence and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our daily lives....

In this groundbreaking book, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton builds on his acclaimed Harvard Business Review article to show you the best ways to deal with assholes...and why they can be so destructive to your company....

Why is it that so many managers see the challenge of managing people as Mission Impossible? Is it because people are impossible? Is it because they’re all inherently lazy, or stupid, or out to undermine you? No. People are full of potential and passion—they want to be engaged in what they’re doing, and valued for doing it well

Two years after buying one of the highest-revenue-producing tire stores in the nation, Kent Coleman watched in horror as sales spiraled downward. In the elevator, right after an awards banquet for the franchise chain, a stranger looked at Kent's name tag and asked, ''Are you with the 9th South store?" "Yes." Looking puzzled, he said, "That store was legendary. Didn't it used to be number one in the country?" It's Not About the Mangos takes listeners through Kent's initial struggles as a young, failing entrepreneur who eventually learns the secret to success.

As a leader, every move you make is either breathing life into your organization or slowly killing it. The atmosphere can easily turn toxic, with negativity, blame, and doubt poisoning the culture. Are you breathing enough oxygen into your organization to give it meaning? Jason Barger has advised some of the world’s biggest brands—including Deloitte, Wendy’s, and many others—on how to engage the minds and hearts of their people. In Breathing Oxygen, he explores mindsets that bring energy to every team and expand their productivity and your organization’s potential.

Adam G. Fleming, artist, entrepreneur, and cross-cultural worker, talks about how to build culture.

What if leaders stripped away all preconceptions about how business operates, allowing the organization to go back to its core and build itself back up to become something new—something so responsive, so innovative and resilient, it becomes virtually non-displaceable in the market? The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today's forward-thinking leaders and paves the path to make it possible. 

As successful CEOs devote their time and energy to growing their companies in a fast-paced world of global trade, high technology, and fierce competition, the how of business—also known as organizational culture—can be neglected. The repercussions include losing your most talented people, damaging your reputation, and wreaking havoc on company growth. Through the use of real-life examples and client conversations, organizational psychologist and master coach Dr. Shahrzad Nooravi shares three models for driving a strong culture.

Few become great leaders. As continuous improvement and breakthroughs have driven innovation, technology, and civilizations forward for centuries, worker motivations have changed. We want authentic connection, work-life balance, and intrinsic purpose now more than ever. How can we weave foundational, people-driven attributes like hard work, initiative, and cooperation into a team, group, or organization's internal structure so it can thrive sustainably?

Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces focuses on how organizations of all types can create a leader-development system that defines critical leader behaviors, provides simple techniques for building and improving the skills that drive those behaviors, and establishes a mechanism for monitoring and enforcing those behaviors. 

Working from home has become working from anywhere. Companies need to move forward and transition into this new era of remote work to grow and retain top talent. Is your company poised to falter or thrive in the hybrid environment? In this book, Kathleen Quinn Votaw shares her signature plan for creating people-centric, relationship-based workplaces where employees replace the nine-to-five work mentality with purpose and personal fulfillment. It takes everyone at a company working together to create a supportive employee experience. Put people first, and all else follows.

Are you tired of hollow promises about diversity, equity, and inclusion in your organization? Do you want to take steps towards real change - beyond issuing mission statements, signing checks, and holding listening sessions - but don’t know where to start? This book is your answer. Designed for teams to listen to together, Actions Speak Louder offers a comprehensive blueprint for leaders and teams who are ready to get out of their own way, look at their surroundings with new eyes, and turn their energy into a concrete plan.

Surviving Toxic Leadership with Gratefulness is the result of my struggle to make sense of the experiences HR professionals generously shared with me, as well as my own nearly decade long experience with a toxic leader. In this audiobook, I share gory details along with a systemic research-based perspective on toxic leadership, recognizing that the problem of a toxic workplace is never encapsulated in the leader alone. I argue throughout the audiobook that it is crucial and urgent that we not only learn about toxic leadership but act to end it.

The HBR Guide to Managing Flexible Work has the answers. Filled with tips, advice, and examples, this book helps individual contributors and managers alike assess the trade-offs that come with flexible work options, advocate for the arrangement that works for them, and remain productive and connected to team members at the same time.

Treating your customers well is no longer enough. The new rule is: employees, too, have to be treated as well, if not better, than the customers. Happy employees make happy customers, and happy customers tend to be loyal. Do you spend money in advertising to create awareness about your product? You don't need to do that any longer. The new rule is: invest in making your product so good that it does its own marketing. New Age companies, Amazon and Flipkart, Uber and Ola, and Netflix, among others, are dismantling the old rules of business and installing new rules in their place.

We’ve been helping independent insurance agencies transform from “doing okay” into their Best Version Possible™ agency for four decades now. We’ve helped agency owners: Work a lot less, while making a lot more, banish drama, gossip, and employee-induced insomnia forever, grow operating profit, increase agency value (resulting in a payday at the end of a long career that would have you smiling for the rest of your life), and turn toxic cultures into dream workplaces, where producers produce and service staff wow clients every day.

Corporate culture is ground zero for your organization. If left to chance, corporate culture will fall to the lowest common denominator or the loudest voice, resulting in inconsistency at best and volatility at worst. Scaling your company means scaling your culture first. You need a clear playbook with actionable steps to foster alignment and a results-driven team of passionate stakeholders. In Scaling Culture, Ron Lovett provides you with the key components you need to create a successful organization that lasts.