What are you reading these days?#brainfood

This summer I really enjoyed reading 'Scale' by Geoffrey West.

"Future Politics" (2018) by Jamie Susskind - a book about how politics are bound to change in the digital age. I think the "corporate rebellion" is connected to the changing political landscape, too.

I'm in the middle of this one by Bob Chapman. So far, impressive story of how to treat people well through supportive leadership.

Yes! I feel that too. That the movement into creating working environments that support the human spirit is very much symbiotic with a shift in our political way of being and how we relate in this space.

I'm reading 'Dare To Lead' by Brene Brown. Good inspiration about how to use your vulnerability as a leader.
Does anyone have good suggestions for Audible? I'm commuting a lot lately, so audio books are perfect for me :-)

Hi Florine, I enjoyed 'Dare to Lead' a lot as well. It that was expiring to you, you might enjoy 'The Work' by Byron Katie or 'Non violent communication' by Marshall Rosenberg as well. Both available on audible

Only published in Dutch now, however they are working on a translation to English already. It is "De meeste mensen deugen" ("Most people are good") by Rutger Bregman.

It gives an interesting perspective on whether we humans, are good or bad, based on psychology, economy, biology and archaeology. And what this perspective means for our society.

And the same, for how we organize our work. Do we need all these managers, procedures, rules and controls? Or could we actually trust each other slightly more?

I really liked this NY-times article from Salesforce founder Marc Benioff:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/opinion/benioff-salesforce-capitalism.html

This are some inspiring articles from this month that highlight some of of our Bucket List pioneers;

First, a piece by Prof. Isaac Getz on i.e. Handelsbanken;
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/altruism-good-for-business-companies

Second, Kate Gatacre on Buurtzorg;
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/to-solve-britains-social-care-crisis-follow-the-dutch-example/

And last, Adam Gale on W.L. Gore;
https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/big-company-everyone-knows/future-business/article/1646199

Anybody read The Great game of Business by Jack Stack?

Just read this interesting piece titled "Why the CEO of this multi-billion dollar firm wants to ‘unboss’ companies":
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/29/why-novartis-ceo-wants-to-unboss-companies.html

Hi Florine, I enjoyed 'Dare to Lead' a lot as well. It that was expiring to you, you might enjoy 'The Work' by Byron Katie or 'Non violent communication' by Marshall Rosenberg as well. Both available on audible

This morning I read this fascinating interview with Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90411397/exclusive-patagonia-founder-yvon-chouinard-talks-about-the-sustainability-myth-the-problem-with-amazon-and-why-its-not-too-late-to-save-the-planet

This is an interesting experiment with the 4 day workweek by Microsoft in Japan. With impressive results;
https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/metro.co.uk/2019/11/04/three-day-weekends-microsoft-brings-40-increase-productivity-11036480/amp/

More brainfood here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FfVSq1jqdo&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

A documentary (Dutch with English subtitles) on working in self-managed care teams at an organization called Amstelring.

I've got a few books on the go and for the first time in a long time I've picked up a book that is Historical Fiction. It's the The Tattooist of Auschwitz. It's definitely a book worth reading. Alongside that I'm also reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind then starting on 21 Lessons for the 21st Century both by Yuval Noah Harari.

Lovely list, let us know which you recommend, I'm quite curious to the ones by Yuval Harari.

I'm currently reading "New Work needs Inner Work" by Joana Breidenbach and Bettina Rollow. Currently only available in German, but an English translation is in the makes.
It focuses on the internal structures we need when we move away from providing external structures (be it hierarchies, processes to follow, etc).

In the1960 Avis was a progressive organization. The then CEO Robert Townshend wrote a very witty book, putting his (rebellious) principles into a few dozen principles. A book like a time travel back to the '60s. It made me wonder why so little progress has been made in today's organizations.

One of my best friends is a huge Brene Brown fan. I must follow her lead one day :-)

Nice tip, Frank!

And may I suggest this LinkedIn article from their CHRO
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/journey-unboss-how-were-learning-lead-differently-steven-baert/

Currently reading "Tribal Leadership", Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization.
I very much like the practical angle of the book. Really tries to give insights and help the reader by providing coaching tips for how to improve the culture within your (organizational) Tribe. Lots of great case examples.

Ju

Just finished reading “Yes to Mess: surprising leadership lessons from Jazz” by Frank J. Barrett.
The book is from 2012, but has anticipated a lot of the topics you’ve covered in the trends. The author makes a parallel with Jazz and Improvisation: he himself has been a jazz pianist. Really some good food for thought.

By accident ordered the audiobook. On CD! Haha, will try to return and get the book instead :)

Here are my top 3 recommendations that have led me to #corporaterebels website and book this 2019!:
- The Age of Agile by Steve Denning;
- An Intimate History Of Humanity by Zheodore Zedlin; (check out his project too: https://oxfordmuse.com/)
- and of course.. Reinventing Organisations by Frederick Laloux.

Looking forward to adding #corporaterebels book to the list ;)

Nearly there, just 4 more weeks to go :)

Just started reading Speak Up by the great researcher Megan Reitz. Very promising start:

This is an inspiring list. I just finished reading "Ego: The Game of Life" by Frank Schirrmacher. I cannot really find a good word to describe what I felt when reading this book, it was very hard to put it away. I found a lot of conclusive explanation why things evolved the way they did around commercialization of, well, everything (including social life and the individual mind). Based on numerous sources (almost 40 pages of referenced literature) he follows the history of the model "homo oeconomicus" and related concepts like rational choice theory to show how these models spread in all life areas and change real people´s behaviour and thinking, with the ultimate goal of reducing humans to calculable objects. It is disturbing, but to me it provided even more reason to search for ways to save and bring back humanness - for example in the work place.

I am reading 'The Story of My Life' by Helen Keller. It's very brief, precise and engaging life history of a wonderfully gifted woman.

Link to a post I wrote recently on LinkedIn. Ánd Corporate Rebels is on the list too (not the book (yet), the movement). See: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mathijs-van-schijndel-7ab07221_inspiration-change-transition-activity-6618801008900403200-cFjQ

I'm currently reading "Ultralearning" by Scott Young. I love the book and can only encourage everybody who loves lifelong learning to read it. It is so enriching and I started my first two ultralearning projects by the proposed method (playing guitar and learning Portuguese).

I agree completely with this comment. Certainly an inspiring book.

And may I suggest this LinkedIn article from their CHRO
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/journey-unboss-how-were-learning-lead-differently-steven-baert/

The book that left the best impression on me until now is "Primed to Perform" by Need Doshi & Lindsay McGregor.

I'm actually reading it a second time and finding hidden gems I had not noticed.

Alexandre

I have this on my reading list https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009L117RY/ref=nav_timeline_asin?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Jørn Buch

Thanks for the tip, Jörn. The journey of OTICON (a Danish Company) from a normal to a very progressive back to a normal one is a great story. I put UNBOSS on my reading list!

"The Insider's Guide to Culture Change" by Siobhan McHale.
I'm halfway through and have been really enjoying it so far — offers a kind of different angle on how to cope with cultural change: behavioural patterns. One of my favourite books of this year, so far.

I am reading the Dutch book 'Organiseren van communities' by Peter Staal and Kirsten Wagenaar (Translation: Organizing communities).

It's about building communities (like this one ;)), how to make them successful, how to moderate and what use they can be for your organisation (external and internal). They share a lot of practical tips and tricks from other successful communities to experiment with.

Next on my list is 'The Employee Experience Advantage' by Jacob Morgan.

I think it would be better if everyone summarize what they read than just telling us name of the books or we should have a section where these summaries uploaded for everyone else joining this forum. What you have to say about that? Is it possible?

Good idea, will ask our IT dude for ideas. If anyone has good ideas on how to do this, please let us know in a new forum topic.