Book summaries
Organisational design book summaries
How work is structured decides more than how people are motivated. These books are about teams, flow, culture, and the operating system around them.
If your transformation is stuck, read Team Topologies or Sooner Safer Happier before you buy another engagement survey. Culture is often a design problem wearing a people-problem costume.
Also see Culture books for leaders.
17 summaries

The Friction Project
7/10 · 26 Sept 2024

The Social Brain
7/10 · 4 Jul 2024

When McKinsey Comes to Town
8/10 · 16 Jan 2024

The Art of Community
7/10 · 7 Feb 2023

Humanocracy
10/10 · 22 Jun 2022

Belonging
20 Mar 2022

The Culture Code
9/10 · 26 Jan 2022

Team Topologies
8/10 · 16 Apr 2021

Upstream
7/10 · 9 Feb 2021

Barcelona Way
8/10 · 12 Dec 2020

Cynefin
6/10 · 11 Dec 2020

Sooner Safer Happier
6/10 · 28 Nov 2020

Project to Product
6/10 · 18 Oct 2020

Beyond Command and Control
28 Jun 2020

A Scrum Book
3 May 2020

The Unicorn Project
7/10 · 7 Mar 2020

Knowing Doing Gap – How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
8/10 · 16 Feb 2020