Fall Reading List
What I’m reading now with a focus on great teams.
I first read about the Fearless Organization when researching Google’s Aristotle Project, which looked at the reasons behind successful teams.
There were multiple factors, but the most significant: psychological safety.
This book looks at the link between psychological safety and successful teams.
Amy Edmondson also has a Ted Talk.
I’m in the middle Turn the Ship Around and already can recommend it to anybody looking to change the outcomes or the culture of a team or organization.
He willingly acknowledges his own errors and details his steps in decision making and change.
This is a leader-leader model.
I love reading about teams, their journeys, successes, failures and the lessons learned.
I highlighted an article written by journalist Melissa Isaacson a couple weeks ago, but have now put State on my list to read.
Evokes an old favorite from the 90s In These Girls Hope is a Muscle about a successful high school basketball team that finally pushes through to the championship.
That’s all the books included in the focus on great teams list for now.
I’m learning fewer is better.
I may add to this list as they present themselves.
Here’s the Summer Reading List –Notes, reviews, etc will be completed in the near future.
Finishing up 59 Lessons by Fergus Connolly. Enjoying it.
Other books about great teams:
Solutions for not so great teams:
Update: Adding a novel to my list. I read Handmaid’s Tale when it first came out and The Testaments will be no different.