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Guide for leaders on how to create a positive and productive workplace culture. The book covers a wide range of topics, including how to foster collaboration, how to create a positive work environment, how to motivate and retain top talent, and how to encourage innovation and creativity. Friedman draws on research from the fields of psychology, sociology, and neuroscience to provide practical strategies for creating a workplace that is engaging, rewarding, and fulfilling for employees. Cover of The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace by Ron Friedman

Cover of The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace by Ron Friedman

The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

by Ron Friedman

2014

Workplace and culture

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Guide for leaders on how to create a positive and productive workplace culture. The book covers a wide range of topics, including how to foster collaboration, how to create a positive work environment, how to motivate and retain top talent, and how to encourage innovation and creativity. Friedman draws on research from the fields of psychology, sociology, and neuroscience to provide practical strategies for creating a workplace that is engaging, rewarding, and fulfilling for employees.

Cover of Flex: Reinventing work for a smarter, happier life by Annie Auerbach

Flex: Reinventing work for a smarter, happier life

Annie Auerbach

A guide for organizations on how to create a healthy and productive work culture. It rejects the “Silicon Valley” status quo and default ways of doing things, advocating for a more sane and people-centric approach. Quite a germinal book for my way of thinking about work, and instilling the “things can be done differently”. It challenges the notion that long hours and constant busyness are necessary for success, promoting a more balanced and thoughtful approach to work. “Less is more”, with a focus on quality over quantity, and defying the conventional wisdom that busyness equates to productivity. Click to read more → Cover of It doesn't have to be crazy at work by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

Cover of It doesn't have to be crazy at work by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

It doesn't have to be crazy at work

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

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Rework

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

★ Featured Claire was a leader in early stages of Google, and now is the COO at Stripe, since quite early also. It is a fantastic guide, very practical and full of detailed examples on how to build a massive impact company - and how to scale it. It takes a lot of attention to the people management side and covers a wide variety of topics, from crafting foundational documents to strategic and financial planning, hiring and team development, feedback and performance mechanisms. The book includes dozens of pages of worksheets, templates, exercises, and example documents to help founders, leaders, and company builders create scalable operating systems and lightweight processes that really work. Click to read more → Cover of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson

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Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

Claire Hughes Johnson

★ Featured A guide for leaders on how to navigate and manage cultural differences in the global business world. IT identifies eight scales on which cultures differ – communication, evaluation, trust, leadership, decision-making, communication style, time, and relationship-building – and provides practical strategies for navigating these differences in order to build strong, effective relationships with people from different cultural backgrounds. The book is based on the idea that cultural differences can be a source of strength and creativity, but they must be understood and managed effectively in order to unlock their full potential. Click to read more → Cover of The Culture Map by Erin Meyer

Cover of The Culture Map by Erin Meyer

The Culture Map

Erin Meyer