Recommended Books

 
 

The Phoenix Project

"The Phoenix Project is a transformative journey that follows a struggling company's pursuit of operational excellence through the implementation of DevOps practices. Through a compelling narrative, it showcases the challenges, successes, and lessons learned in their quest to overcome bottlenecks, improve collaboration, and deliver value to their customers."

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Open Management: Better work for a better world

If you are dissatisfied with the way work works, and you are seeking better ways of working, this book will propose new directions for you to explore, and inspire you to go there to make work better.

Amidst today’s wild rates of change and shifting social values, we all need better ways to work. What got you here won't get you there. You're probably already struggling with a different world. This book looks at why, and who we must be to make work better. Better for everyone: better results, better lives, better society.