So here we are This one will be pinned here so it’s always easy to find! Just post your book recommendations. Let’s keep this thread just for recommendations and/or requests.
A Liberated Mind, Steven Hayes. There’s a vague connection in terms of people here: Hayes is connected to Prosocial. It’s basically the inner readiness for doing any of this collaborative work with self-responsibility, or inner freedom if those words work for you.
How to measure anything - Douglas Hubbard. Very technical and nerdy but so important! I think reading the book (I’m 50% in and reading it slowly in small bits) is making me a better decision-maker and facilitator. In particular, it’s addressing the typical reservations of “well, one can’t measure that so let’s not even try”
On new ways of working:
Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan from The Ready
Humanocracy by prof. Gary Hamel (+ all previous books of his)
Age of Agile by Steven Denning
Having been recommended one book by @egon.loke and reading it (Humankind), I’ll pay close attention to his reading list
Humankind was AMAZING!
Worth every paragraph!
I’d like to put in a plug for the Prosocial worldview and toolkit–conceptual and pragmatic action tools that apply systemic thinking to group engagement in order to improve cooperation and trust. The research background draws upon direct observation of indigenous peoples who steward shared resources, or commons, effectively. The Steven Hayes’ work presented in “A Liberated Mind” is captured in the use of the Prosocial “noticing tools” that help group members understand one another on feelings, thought and behavioral levels–bringing together a more coherent sense of “what matters most” to the group that leads to more focused action goals. I am very excited to see that David Bollier will be hosting a seminar for Sociocracy4all on June 9th–he is a seminal thinker on the commons…here’s a quote from his web site: “There is no master inventory of commons because commons arise whenever a given community decides it wishes to manage a resource in a collective manner with special regard for equitable access, use and sustainability.” His worldview is a natural fit for sociocratic governance application–for what could be our most cherished commons than our collective sense of trust in service to a thriving life for all? At least, that’s how I think of a free and happy community self-governance–Ideally they lay out agreements in which I can most deeply be myself while being with others in interdependent, mutually regenerative relationship.