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February 2025 TD Authors: What's on Your Bookshelf?

Contributors to the February 2025 issue of TD magazine offer their book recommendations.

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Sat Feb 01 2025

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Mark Britz

Design for Cognitive Bias

By David Dylan Thomas

This book is essential for understanding how cognitive biases influence decision making, leading to more informed, inclusive design processes. Thomas provides actionable strategies to recognize and mitigate biases, which is invaluable for creating more user-centered and ethical products.

Seeing Organizational Patterns

By Robert W. Keidel

This book is timeless, as it offers a clear perspective on how organizational structures resemble various patterns in life and nature. It's an insightful read for anyone looking to foster adaptive, flexible organizations. The text is particularly useful for leaders who want to balance autonomy, hierarchy, and collaboration effectively in complex environments.

Raymond Butler

Permission to be Human: The Conscious Leader’s Guide to Creating a Values-Driven Culture

By MaryBeth Hyland

This book is as much for managers and organizational leaders as it is for every employee. At its core, it is about being authentic and human in the workplace, but that spills over into creating a thriving company culture that values individuals and holds everyone accountable. A company’s values should guide the actions and intent of all that it does, but sometimes, these values are stated but not practiced or encouraged. MaryBeth Highland does not present this book as a panacea for this problem. For everyone reading, she recognizes the level of discomfort and hard work involved, and steps must be taken first as individuals before moving on. Intentionality is the key, and as such, it is important to realize that company culture exists whether or not leadership does anything about it.

Creativity, Inc.

By Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

Creativity and innovation are hallmarks of a great organization, but how do you start a creative culture? Read about the early days of Pixar along with lessons from all the company's fears, failures, and triumphs. Catmull's stories provide pearls of wisdom that only hindsight allows. The tips touch upon empowering individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve their potential. One of my favorite takeaways from the book is that managers should not prevent risks; it is their job to make the environment safe to take such chances.

Colin J. Hahn

Wiring the Winning Organization

By Gene Kim and Steven J. Spear

Use this framework to understand and improve organizational performance. Talent leaders can leverage the insights to improve collaboration, deliver value faster, and build a learning organization.

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