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Creativity, Inc.
A masterful exploration of how leadership, culture, and trust shape creativity — drawn from Ed Catmull’s experience building Pixar as its co-founder and President.
The Fearless Organization
A classic, research-based guide to creating psychological safety at work so people can speak up, learn, and innovate without fear.
The Right Kind of Wrong
A research-based guide to understanding different kinds of failure and why learning depends on failing intelligently rather than avoiding mistakes. Edmondson shows how leaders can create the conditions for experimentation without blame.
Creative Confidence
A practical guide to reclaiming creativity by overcoming fear and building confidence through action, experimentation, and empathy.
The Achievement Habit
A practical, design-inspired guide to turning intention into action through small experiments, responsibility, and behavioral change.
Testing with Humans
A practical guide to testing assumptions through small, real-world experiments, helping teams reduce uncertainty and make better decisions early.
Talking to Humans
A practical guide to customer discovery that emphasizes learning through real conversations rather than assumptions. Giff Constable shows how talking to humans early can prevent costly mistakes later.
The Fifth Discipline
A foundational work on systems thinking and organizational learning, this book shows how deep-seated structures and mental models shape behavior and outcomes over time.
Reinventing Organizations
A landmark book exploring how organizations can evolve toward greater autonomy, purpose, and human-centered ways of working.
The Anxious Generation
A research-driven exploration of how digital technologies and changing childhood norms are reshaping mental health in younger generations.
Attention Span
A research-based examination of how modern work fragments attention — and what individuals and organizations can do to restore balance and focus.
Altered Traits
A science-based examination of how meditation reshapes attention, emotion, and behavior over time, separating evidence from hype.
Why Meditate
A clear, accessible introduction to meditation by Matthieu Ricard, focused on working skillfully with thoughts and emotions to cultivate balance and compassion.
Emotional Awareness
A thoughtful dialogue between the Dalai Lama and world-renowned psychologist Paul Ekman on emotional awareness, balance, and the cultivation of compassion.
Hyper Island Toolbox
An experiential learning and facilitation toolkit from Hyper Island, focused on collaboration, reflection, and learning through action.
Liberating Structures
A facilitation toolkit offering simple interaction patterns that help groups work more inclusively, effectively, and intelligently together.
IDEO.org Design Kit
A human-centered design toolkit from the legendary design firm focused on applying design thinking to social, public, and community-based challenges.
Gamestorming
A facilitation toolkit based on structured games that help teams think visually, collaborate more effectively, and tackle complex challenges together.
Google Ventures Design Sprint Kit
A structured innovation toolkit from Google Ventures designed to help teams solve big problems and test ideas quickly through time-boxed sprints and rapid user testing.
Stanford d.school Bootleg
A foundational design thinking toolkit bringing together practical tools for human-centered innovation. Widely used across universities, startups, and organizations to navigate ambiguity through empathy, experimentation, and iteration.

