Books

The books behind the practice

Our own workbooks come with a full walkthrough — the key ideas, what to do, and what to sit with. For everyone else's books we don't summarise; we tell you what we take from them, and where we think they get misread.

This week's feature

Working Apart, Performing Together

The Remote and Hybrid Team Workbook

The office quietly supplied six team conditions for free — coordination, recognition, trust, belonging, growth, and sustainability. Distributed teams must rebuild each one deliberately. A workbook companion to the pindrop app and its Distributed Team Health Check.

Robert Browton · 19 min read

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The shelf

Walkthrough

The Experience Gap Workbook

Robert Browton

Walkthrough

The Facilitator's Workbook

Robert Browton

Walkthrough

Working Apart, Performing Together

Robert Browton

Walkthrough

The Culture Ladder

Robert Browton

Our commentary

The Fearless Organization

Amy C. Edmondson

Our commentary

The Culture Code

Daniel Coyle

Our commentary

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

Our commentary

Organizational Culture and Leadership

Edgar H. Schein

Our commentary

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Our commentary

Drive

Daniel H. Pink

Our commentary

Dare to Lead

Brené Brown

Our commentary

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

Our commentary

An Everyone Culture

Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey

Our commentary

Nine Lies About Work

Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall

Our commentary

Multipliers

Liz Wiseman

Our commentary

Work Rules!

Laszlo Bock

Our commentary

Team of Teams

General Stanley McChrystal

Our commentary

Turn the Ship Around!

L. David Marquet

Our commentary

Trillion Dollar Coach

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle

Read the idea, then build it

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