Below you will find a list of recommended books categorized into four subject areas: Teams, Complexity Thinking, Leadership, and The Flow System.
This reading list is dynamic, and I will add new items as I find them. If you have a book that you would like to recommend, feel free to either contact me or list it in the comment section of this page.
Happy Reading. Any comments or reviews for any of the books listed will be welcomed and added below each text. Please keep reviews/comments to only a few sentences.
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Teams
Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems
Richard J. Hackman
Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership
Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-Francois Harvey
Group Dynamics (current Edition)
Donald R. Forsyth
Group Dynamics for Teams (current Edition)
Daniel Levi
Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration
Keith Sawyer
Group Problem Solving
Patrick R. Laughlin
Improving Patient Safety Through Teamwork and Team Training
Edited by: Eduardo Salas and Karen Frush
Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performance
Richard J. Hackman
Multiteam Systems: An Organization Form for Dynamic and Complex Environments
Edited by: Stephen J. Zaccaro, Michelle A. Marks, and Leslie A. DeChurch
Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread–The Lessons from a New Science
Alex Pentland
Team Cognition: Understanding the Factors that Drive Process and Performance
Edited by: Eduardo Salas and Stephen M. Fiore
Team Effectiveness and Decision Making in Organizations
Edited by: Richard Guzzo, Eduardo Salas, and Associates
Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations
Rich Karlgaard and Michael S. Malone
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
Amy C. Edmondson
Teams of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell
The Discipline of Teams: A Mindbook–Workbook for Delivering Small Group Performance
Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of The Psychology of Team Working and Collaborative Processes
Edited by: Eduardo Salas, Ramon Rico and Jonathan Passmore
The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization
Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
Theories of Team Cognition: Cross–Disciplinary Perspectives
Edited by: Eduardo Salas, Stephen M. Fiore, and Michael P. Letsky
Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Cass R. Suntein and Reid Hastie
Complexity Thinking
Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction
John Holland
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Mitchell M. Waldrop
Coping with Uncertainty: Insights from the New Science of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Complexity
Uri Merry
Critical Mass: How one Thing Leads to Another
Philip Ball
Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World (Vol. 1)
Design Unbound: Designing for Emergence in a White Water World (Vol. 2)
Anne M. Pendleton-Jullian and John Seely
Two-Volume set
Emergence: From Chaos to Order
John H. Holland
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
John Holland
How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity
Brian Goodwin
Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life
Robert Rosen
Making Sense of the Organization: The Impermanent Organization
Karl E. Weick
Probably Approximately Correct: Nature’s Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World
Leslie Valiant
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
Geoffrey West
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems
John H. Holland
Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World
Daniel Stokols
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
Stuart Kauffman
Think Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Leadership
Classic Drucker
Peter F. Drucker
Complex Adaptive Leadership: Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty (2nd Edition)
Nick Obolensky
Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice (current edition)
Peter G. Northouse
Leadership: Theory and Practice (current Edition)
Peter G. Northouse
Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty
Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe
Organizational Culture and Leadership (current Edition)
Edgar H. Schein
Out of the Crises
Edwards W. Deming
People and Performance: The Best of Peter Drucker on Management
Peter F. Drucker
Powered by Storytelling: Excavate, Craft, and Present Stories to Transform Business Communication
Murray Nossel
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
Gary Klein
Strategy Safari: Your Complete Guide Through the Wilds of Strategic Management
Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
Amy C. Edmondson
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks
The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Education
Edward W. Deming
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
David L. Marquet
The Flow System
The Flow System: Key Principles and Attributes
John R. Turner and Nigel Thurlow
The Flow System: The Evolution of Agile and Lean Thinking in an Age of Complexity
John R. Turner, Nigel Thurlow, and Brian Rivera
Forthcoming–Expected this Summer 2020
The Flow System Guide
John R. Turner, Nigel Thurlow, and Brian Rivera
“When in doubt, we must suspend judgement.”
Hume
“When we are presented with an alternative that appears to us to be more meaningful and so more true, a new perception will take place and correct our errors.”
Polanyi