Resources
“There’s a tendency in our business, as in all businesses, to value the idea as opposed to the person or a team of people. But that’s not accurate. Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they’ll find a way to screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a good team, and they’ll find a way to make it better. The goal needs to be to get the team right, get them moving in the right direction, and get them to see where they are making mistakes and where they are succeeding.”
Ed Catmull – Former President of Walt Disney and Pixar
Books
- Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great, by Ruth Wageman, J. Richard Hackman
- The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-performance Organization, by Katzenbach and Smith
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business, by Patrick Lencioni
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, by Daniel Coyle
- The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth, by Amy C. Edmonson
- Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness, Frederic Laloux
- Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Geert Hofstede
- The Culture Map, by Erin Meyer
- Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together, William Isaacs
- The Tao of Dialogue, by Paul Lawrence
Articles
- Google’s Project Aristotle (re:Work)
- What Psychological Safety is Not, by Amy C. Edmondson
- Creating a culture of caring, by Dan Ariely
- Is organization structure more important than company culture?, by Joost Minnaar
Videos/Podcasts
Books
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, by Eric Schmidt
- Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling, by Edgar Schein
- The Meaning Revolution, by Fred Kofman
- Organizational Culture and Leadership, by Edgar Schein
- Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, by Dave Logan
Articles
- Jeff Bezos: Here’s how I make Amazon’s highest-stakes decisions
- Leading virtual teams in times of disruption, by Jennifer Jordan (IMD)
- The Psychology Behind Effective Crisis Leadership, by Gianpiero Petriglieri (INSEAD)
- Overwhelmed? Adopt a Paradox Mindset, by Ella Miron-Spektor and Wendy Smith
- Here’s How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great Leader, by Jeff Haden
- Bezos, Musk, & Buffett See The World Differently, Because They See Time Differently, by Michael Simmons
- Solitude and Leadership, by William Deresiewicz
- ‘Rank-and-Yank’? That’s Not How It’s Done, by Jack Welsh
Videos/Podcasts
Books
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
- The Great Game of Business, by Jack Stack
- Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation, by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, by John Doerr
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose, by Tony Hsieh
- Exponential Organizations, by Salim Ismail
- Start-up Nation, by Dan Senor and Paul Singer
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth
Articles
- What’s Culture Worth? Stock Performance of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work 2009 to 2019
- The NFX Company Culture Scorecard and Playbook, by Pete Flint and James Currier
- The Essentials of High Performance Organizations, by Mark Vickers
Videos/Podcasts
Books
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, by Robert Sapolsky
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Daniel J. Levitin
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke
- Nine Lies About Work: : A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World, by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall
Articles
Videos/Podcasts
Books
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, by Brené Brown
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, by Adam Grant
- How Will You Measure Your Life, by Clayton Christensen
- Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Taleb
- Your Body is Your Brain, by Amanda Blake
Articles
- Why Startups that Survive are “Learning Organizations”, by Gigi Levy-Weiss
- Why It’s Time to Bring Learning to the C-Suite, BCG
- Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong, by Brian Resnick
- Sfaturi pentru mine tânăr. Florin Talpeş, Bitdefender
- How to put intentional learning into practice: 3x3x3, by Lisa Christensen, Jake Gittleson and Matthew Smith, McKinsey
- 4 ways to Improve Your Strategic Thinking Skills, Nina A. Bowman, HBR
Videos/Podcasts
Books
- Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
- Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, by Priya Parker
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, by Malcolm Gladwell
- 27 de pași, de Tibi Ușeriu
Articles
- Why Touchy Feely Is the Most Important Class Offered at Stanford Biz School — and What You Can Learn from It, by Bruce Anderson
- How to know who’s trustworthy, by T. Ryan Byerly
Videos/Podcasts
“Start treating teams, not individuals, as the fundamental building blocks of the organization.”
Adam Grant – Professor of organizational psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
“Your title makes you a manager. Your people make you a leader.”
Donna Dubinsky
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
Alvin Tofler
“That’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being – to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.”
Malcolm Gladwell
“The thing to do, when you don’t know, is not to bluff and not to freeze, but to learn. The way you learn is by experiment—or, as Buckminster Fuller put it, by trial and error, error, error.”
Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright – Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“Many of the other skills of management can be delegated, but not coaching. The path to success in a fast-moving, highly competitive, technology-driven business world is to form high-performing teams and give them the resources and freedom to do great things. And an essential component of high-performing teams is a leader who is both a savvy manager and a caring coach.”
Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) – Trillion Dollar Coach
“You have priorities, whether you name them or not. If you want to grow, you’d better name them, and you’d better name the behaviors that support the priorities.”
Daniel Coyle – The Culture Code
“If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.”
Nassim Taleb
“People with humility don’t think less of themselves – they think about themselves less.”
Ken Blanchard
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”
Gen. Colin Powell
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“We hope that you are thinking about how to make your team great, and how you can propel yourself to be great, to go beyond your self-imposed limits. Because the world faces many challenges and they can only be solved by teams. Those teams need coaches.”
Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) – Trillion Dollar Coach
“”When we talk about courage, we think it’s going against an enemy with a machine gun,” Cooper says. “The real courage is seeing the truth and speaking the truth to each other. People never want to be the person who says, ‘Wait a second, what’s really going on here?’ But inside the squadron, that is the culture, and that’s why we’re successful.”
“It has always bothered me how even ordinary conversations tend to be defined by what we tell rather than by what we ask. Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama. Yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions. In particular, it is the higher-ranking leaders who must learn the art of Humble Inquiry as a first step in creating a climate of openness.”
Edgar H. Schein – Humble Inquiry