9 Best Books on Great Teamwork
Great teamwork is more important than ever. Also, it's a huge challenge to work efficiently as a team, keep innovation and creativity on a high level and have all team-members motivated and engaged - in a lot of cases all in a remote set-up. There are some fantastic reads on how to improve your team's work by providing the right environment and setting the right direction. We've collected our top 9.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Why read?
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
229 pages, 2002
The Culture Code
Why read?
In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle goes inside some of the world’s most successful organizations—including the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, IDEO, and the San Antonio Spurs—and reveals what makes them tick. He demystifies the culture-building process by identifying three key skills that generate cohesion and cooperation, and explains how diverse groups learn to function with a single mind. Drawing on examples that range from Internet retailer Zappos to the comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade to a daring gang of jewel thieves, Coyle offers specific strategies that trigger learning, spark collaboration, build trust, and drive positive change. Coyle unearths helpful stories of failure that illustrate what not to do, troubleshoots common pitfalls, and shares advice about reforming a toxic culture. Combining leading-edge science, on-the-ground insights from world-class leaders, and practical ideas for action, The Culture Code offers a roadmap for creating an environment where innovation flourishes, problems get solved, and expectations are exceeded.
Culture is not something you are—it’s something you do. The Culture Code puts the power in your hands. No matter the size of your group or your goal, this book can teach you the principles of cultural chemistry that transform individuals into teams that can accomplish amazing things together.
304 pages, 2018
Debugging Teams
Why read?
What’s this book about? The goal of this book is to help programmers become more effective and efficient at creating software by improving their ability to understand, communicate with, and collaborate with other people
190 pages, 2015
Revolutionize Teamwork
Why read?
Is your team creating revolutionary results? Taking a page from Facebook’s own management practices, Eric Coryell has developed a teamwork model for productive group work that creates trust, success, and true accountability. How? By redefining your team’s focus to be customer-facing as opposed to internally facing! Revolutionize Teamwork is a quick one-hour read packed with valuable information that shows you how to create and lead effective teams built on shared trust.
128 pages, 2019
Help the Helper
Why read?
Help the Helper will show you how to put a certain level of teamwork to work in your business, to build a culture that recognizes and rewards those who help the helper — even when they don’t have sexy statistics.
256 pages, 2012
The Best Team Wins
Why read?
The New York Times bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle and All In deliver a breakthrough, groundbreaking guide for building today’s most collaborative teams—so any organization can operate at peak performance.
A massive shift is taking place in the business world. In today’s average company, up to eighty percent of employees’ days are now spent working in teams. And yet the teams most people find themselves in are nowhere near as effective as they could be. They’re often divided by tensions, if not outright dissension, and dysfunctional teams drain employees’ energy, enthusiasm, and creativity. Now Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton share the proven ways managers can build cohesive, productive teams, despite the distractions and challenges every business is facing.
272 pages, 2018
Radical Candor
Why read?
Radical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships. The idea is simple: You don’t have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor―avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy―you can be kind and clear at the same time. Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original publication of Radical Candor in 2017, Scott has earned international fame with her vital approach to effective leadership and co-founded the Radical Candor executive education company, which helps companies put the book’s philosophy into practice.
272 pages, 2017
Team of Teams
Why read?
Why this book might be interesting for you… What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?
304 pages, 2015
Distributed Teams
Why read?
Drawn from 26+ years working in distributed organizations, this book gathers what did — and did not — work from my own hard-learned lessons,as well as learnings from company founders, hedge fund managers,software developers, data scientists, accountants, book publishers, economists, political organizers, recruiters, military personnel, executive assistants, therapists and medical technicians.
335 pages, 2018