A book about combining the power of aligning an entire company wholeheartedly. It is a practical guide to provide insight and advice on how to successfully navigate the treacherous waters of modern day business. It shows you how to combine a great action plan with an equally strong set of goals for 

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recommended by James Newson: Excellent book on cultural differences in business, which serve as a great jumping off point for discussing company culture.

The classic book for changemakers, it shows how to use visual collaboration to help groups of people create and discover together.

This book articulates the manager’s perspective on managing the work not the workers. Full of useful insights that challenge a lot of pre-conceived notions traditional managers have, it’s a useful guidebook to where to start improving your company culture as you go remote

An excellent book on meetings, company culture, and making sure everything gets done as expected.

Focuses on implementing change management at a large scale.

Great book about behavioral interviewing, a technique of asking questions that test for cultural fit during a hiring process.

Great little booklet which goes back to the basics of exactly how to formulate objectives for managers, with loads of examples to draw on.

This book digs into the management practices that made Big Tech Big Tech. Kantrowitz give a lot of examples for the rest of us to be able to apply the key insights he’s learned from interviewing industry insiders and CEOs at the big Five: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

One of the biggest mistakes you can make in your business is to be all over the map. It’s easy to get caught up in doing a million different things, but it’s much more difficult to find success with your business if you’re not aligned in your message. Patty pulls it all together in an eminently prac

 Looking for a way to track your team’s progress? What about aligning and focusing people and resources? Read on. Allan Kelly’s Agile OKRs is a guide to help teams use the popular Objectives and Key Results (OKR) method, which is used by Google, Facebook, Hubspot, and many others to build successful

Agendashift by Mike Burrows

Books from the Podcast

Managing Remote Teams ebook by Luke Szyrmer

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer

Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo

Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix it by Jody Thompson and Cali Ressler

Where the action is

Leading Successful Changeby Greg Shea and Cassie Solomon

Unmasked by Ryan Englin and Jeremy Macliver

How To Write Objectives That Work by Nancy Slessenger

Always Day One by Alex Kantrowitz

The Art of Alignment by Patty Beach

Agendashift by Mike Burrows

Agile OKRs by Allan Kelly