Culture & Team Building
Building company culture, hiring, and creating high-performing teams
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No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings
Netflix and the culture of reinvention. Hastings reveals the unconventional principles behind Netflix's culture of freedom and responsibility that enabled its transformation.
Powerful
Patty McCord
Building a culture of freedom and responsibility. Netflix's former Chief Talent Officer shares the unconventional HR practices that shaped one of the most influential company cultures.
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
The secrets of highly successful groups. Coyle reveals the three skills that generate group chemistry: building safety, sharing vulnerability, and establishing purpose.
Team of Teams
Stanley McChrystal
New rules of engagement for a complex world. General McChrystal shows how to adapt traditional hierarchies into agile networks that can respond to rapid change.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
A leadership fable about teamwork. Lencioni uses a story format to reveal the five dysfunctions that undermine teams and how to overcome them.
Who
Geoff Smart
The A method for hiring. Smart and Street present a systematic approach to hiring that helps you avoid costly mistakes and find the right people for your team.
Work Rules!
Laszlo Bock
Insights from inside Google that will transform how you live and lead. Bock shares the people practices that made Google consistently ranked as the best place to work.
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
Overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration. Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull shares how to build a creative culture that produces hit after hit.
Setting the Table
Danny Meyer
The transforming power of hospitality in business. Restaurateur Danny Meyer shares the philosophy that created legendary restaurants and a hospitality empire.
The Alliance
Reid Hoffman
Managing talent in the networked age. Hoffman proposes a new employer-employee compact based on tours of duty, mutual investment, and transparent conversations.