Succeed with kick-ass teams
This collection includes books that give you an amazingly insightful perspective on how to build and develop highly successful teams and provides you with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture.
Help the Helper
Building a Culture of Extreme Teamwork
by Kevin Pritchard, John Eliot
Why read?
Help the Helper will show you how to put a certain level of teamwork to work in your business, to build a culture that recognizes and rewards those who help the helper — even when they don’t have sexy statistics.
256 pages, Portfolio 2012
The Culture Code
The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by Daniel Coyle
Why read?
The author of The Talent Code unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow’s leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture.
304 pages, Bantam 2018
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A Leadership Fable
by Patrick Lencioni
Why read?
The author outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.
229 pages, Jossey-Bass 2002
Tribal Leadership
Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
by Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright
What’s this book about?
This book gives an amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed.
320 pages, HarperBusiness 2011
The Wisdom of Teams
Creating the High-Performance Organization
by Jon R. Katzenbach
Why read?
Comprehensive and proven effective, The Wisdom of Teams is the classic primer on making teams a powerful tool for success in today’s global marketplace.
352 pages, HarperBusiness 2006
Debugging Teams
Better Productivity through Collaboration
by Brian W. Fitzpatrick & Ben Collins-Sussman
What’s this book about?
The goal of this book is to help programmers become more effective and efficient at creating software by improving their ability to understand, communicate with, and collaborate with other people
190 pages, O’Reilly Media 2015
Clear Leadership
Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work
by Gervase Bushe
Who is the author?
In 2016 Gervase was added to HR Magazine’s (UK) list of the 30 Most Influential Thinkers in people strategy in the world.
228 pages, Nicholas Brealey 2010
Team of Teams
New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman & Chris Fussell
Why this book might be interesting for you…
What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?
304 pages, Portfolio 2015
Team Turnarounds
A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming Teams
by Joe Frontiera & Daniel Leidl
Why read?
Learn how any manager can turn a struggling team into business champs.
272 pages, Jossey-Bass 2012
Peopleware
Productive Projects and Teams
by Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister
Why read?
Few books in computing have had as profound an influence on software management as Peopleware.
272 pages, Addison-Wesley Professional 2013
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
Embrace Them and Empower Your Team
by John C. Maxwell
Learn how...
…the Law of High Morale inspired a 50-year-old man who couldn’t even swim to train for the toughest triathlon in the world.
288 pages, Thomas Nelson 2013
Agile Retrospectives
Making Good Teams Great
by Esther Derby & Diana Larsen
Why read?
Derby and Larsen show you the tools, tricks, and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis.
178 pages, Pragmatic Bookshelf 2006
