Recommended reading
The following resources give you some places to extend your thinking and understanding across the course topics. They are by no means exhaustive - just a place to start.
Industrial era vs collaborative era
ARTICLES
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A brief history of the three eras of management - Harvard Business Review
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Why breaking down hierarchies will help you get the most out of talent - Forbes
- Culture change (line dance) or culture transformation (moonwalk)? - Fran Willis White
- A culture of experimentation - Jon MacDonald
BOOKS
What might a collaborative era organisation look like:
- Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux (a must read - and I really recommend the illustrated version)
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Explore BetaCodex as a concept for a non-hierarchical way of organising a company.
- Joy, Inc - the story of Menlo innovations and its radically different approach to culture and hierarchy.
- Maverick is evidence that that transformational ways of running organisations are not really 'new'. Ricardo Semlar was running his global self-organising business in the 1980s.
Deep work
- Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Professor Cal Newport
- Makers' schedule, managers' schedule - Paul Graham
Diversity
Cognitive diversity
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The two traits of the best problem solving teams - Harvard Business Review
- Teams solve problems faster when they are more cognitively diverse - Harvard Business Review
Gender
- What makes a team perform better? More women say researchers, Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone, in Harvard Business Review.
Psychological safety
- Unpicking some of the subtleties and paradoxes around psychological safety - Forbes
- BOOK: The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson
Conflict and clean comms
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Task vs relationship conflict - Collaboration Dynamics
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Three types of conflict - Harvard.edu
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Task vs relationship conflict in the context of team performance - MIT
Two types of conflict and how to deal with them - Unicorn Labs
- Fierce Conversations - Susan Scott
- Crucial Conversations - Kerry Patterson
- Radical Candour - Kim Scott
- Difficult conversations - how to discuss what matters most
Decision-making
- Consensing - Erich Visotschnig
- Fist of five voting
Facilitation lessons from improv
- Bring a brick not a cathedral - Omerisms
- The space between stimulus and response - Omerisms
Change and experimentation
- Fearless Change - Mary Lynn Manns, Ph.D and Linda Rising
- The Everyday Change Playbook - because change doesn't have to be sh*t - Susie Palmer-Trew
Podcasts
- WorkLife with Adam Grant
- Being Human with Richard Atherton
- You are not a frog - with Dr Rachel Morris
- Radical Candour
