Books about company culture

Begin With WE

Kyle McDowell · 2022

WE do the right thing. WE own our mistakes. WE pick each other up. WE challenge each other. WE obsess over details. Apathetic. Disengaged. Insecure. Afraid. These are words appropriately associated with many aspects of Corporate America. In Begin With…

Agile People

Pia-Maria Thoren

Corporate cultures, global mindsets, and employee priorities are changing, which means management and human resources departments must also evolve. To ensure teams are well crafted, motivated, and successful, managers and HR professionals must step outside…

Love Is Free. Guac Is Extra

Monty Moran

Imagine you're one of 75,000 people working in a huge company, and the CEO wants to talk to you, one-on-one, to get to know and understand you. That's what Monty Moran did 20,000 times as he built the extraordinary culture that took Chipotle Mexican Grill…

Thanks for Coming in Today

Charles Ryan Minton

By providing your customers and guests with an unforgettable experience, your business can build customer loyalty and gain an edge over your competition. But what most managers forget is that great customer service starts with happy employees. To take your…

Virtual Culture

The Way We Work Doesn’t Work Anymore, a Manifesto

Bryan Miles · 2018

It’s the twenty-first century, yet most companies maintain a twentieth century corporate culture. Despite instant communication and collaboration through wireless computers and smartphones, employers needlessly rent or own office space. Bryan Miles has a…

Entrepreneurial Compassion

Cal Riley · 2025

Discover the most important thing you can do for your business. As an entrepreneur, you have big dreams. You work constantly, but you’re burning out. Your best people keep leaving, you're not making the profits you should, and you’re exhausted. But you know…

The Problem Isn’t Their Paycheck

How to Attract Top Talent and Build a Thriving Company Culture

Grant Botma · 2019

We’ve been made to believe that money is the ultimate motivator. We think that businesses who have high-end compensation packages attract the best talent and that well-compensated employees will be high performers and stay content. The stats and…

Culture Wins

William Vanderbloemen

What could your company accomplish if it could attract and retain employees who buy into your organization's mission 100%? Culture Wins is a practical yet challenging modern guidebook for organizations that want to own the future. Its firsthand insights into…

Best Team Ever

David Burkus · 2023

Talent doesn’t make the team, the team makes the talent. Why are some teams more motivated, innovative, and successful than others? Why do some groups of talented people fall short against lesser teams? And how do you go about building a high-performing team?…

Thrive

The Leader's Guide to Building a High-Performance Culture

Andrew Freedman · 2021

Thrive provides leaders with a clear blueprint for building a high-performance culture. Drawing on extensive experience in change management, organizational development, and performance consulting, Andrew Freedman and Paul Elliott share their systematic…

The Rack We Built

Lorenzo Gomez

In 1998, the thought of launching a startup in San Antonio was ludicrous, but that didn’t stop Rackspace’s founders from planting their flag in the heart of Texas. Just over two decades later, the scrappy little underdog that no one believed in is a…

No One's Listening and It's Your Fault

Get Your Message Heard During Organizational Transformations

Pam Marmon · 2020

Leading change at your organization can be a daunting proposition while you face mounting pressure for growth. As a senior leader, what should be an exciting time for your organization becomes a challenge, leading to a fear of change and the belief that…

The Great Engagement

How CEOs Create Exceptional Cultures

Tom Willis · 2024

Extraordinary organizations have extraordinary cultures. Fully engaged team members find personal meaning in their jobs, and in the company. Driven by a sense of purpose, they feel responsible, and accountable, for results. Personal development becomes the…

The Core Value Equation

Darius Mirshahzadeh

If you're a CEO, three of the biggest pain points you face in today's business world are: • Making the best decisions when the answer isn't always clear • Maintaining a strong and consistent culture as your business rapidly grows • Attracting and…

The Evolved Executive

Heather Hanson Wickman · 2018 · Audiobook

An essential blueprint for designing a vibrant, cutting-edge organization, leading from love, not fear. Today’s forward thinking leaders know that the future of work is human; it’s about catalyzing people in pursuit of a meaningful mission. By leading…

Culture Fox

Lorean Cairns · 2019

You know you’ve got the skill, passion, and drive to build a thriving salon culture, but you might not be sure how to bring that vision to life. Through the launch of her brand, Fox and Jane, Lorean Cairns developed a proven formula and turned a three-chair…

People-First Culture

Michael Falcon

MICHEL FALCON DEVELOPED HIS PEOPLE-FIRST CULTURE™ PHILOSOPHY ...over the course of his remarkable career: from working as a $10-per-hour call center agent, to starting an advisory company with big name clients such as Verizon and Alfa Romeo, to starting…

The Dream Machine

Dane Espegard · 2021

For a CEO or business owner, the teams you lead are the heart of your enterprise. An investment in their fulfillment is an investment in your company’s future. As the landscape rapidly changes, more than anyone could have foreseen, organizations are…

The Case for Culture

How to Stop Being a Slave to Your Law Firm, Grow Your Practice, and Actually Be Happy

Eric Farber · 2020

Most lawyers don’t set out to be business owners. They become business owners when they open their own law firm, and from that point forward, their work tends to become disconnected and chaotic. They’re so busy with HR, bookkeeping, and marketing that they’re…

Align

Four Simple Steps For Leaders to Create Employee Fulfillment Through Alignment Leadership

Chris Meroff · 2019

USA Today and Wall Street Journal BestSellerAlign, part 1 of a 3-part series, shares four simple steps that transforms the way leaders lead and renew their self-confidence. Through the process Align offers, leaders develop the courage to connect with their…

Built on Belief

Matt Marcotte · 2025

What Fuels Successful Brands? Belief. In Built on Belief, author and leadership advisor Matt Marcotte offers a powerful reminder that people, not products, are a brand’s secret sauce. This time-tested narrative shows what happens when leaders and teams turn…

Scale without Losing Your Soul

The Startup Culture Guide

Simon D’Arcy · 2023

Leaders and founders know that company culture is important and that if they don’t get it right, it will cost them in the long run. This book is a proven step-by-step guide for discovering, designing, and evolving your culture as you scale.

It's Never Just Business

J. Scott · 2019

Being a successful business leader isn’t about giving inspirational speeches, making the decisions, and saving the day. It’s also not about success, being wealthy, receiving recognition, or calling the shots. Leadership is about change for the purpose of…

The Transformational Leadership Compass

Benny Ausmus · 2021

Thousands of books about business and leadership are published every single year, but we seldom have time to digest that knowledge, let alone put it all into action. Organisational change is rarely simple, but The Transformational Leadership Compass makes the…

Culture for the Left-Brained Leader

Strategy, Tactics, and Implementation for Transformative Results

Andrew Kim · 2021

A Strategic Advantage for the Long-Term Horizon Think that processes and systems alone can get your company where it needs to go? Think again! The long-term horizon needs to be supported by a strategically built organizational culture, or your bottom line…

Founder's Footing

An Entrepreneurial Guide To Leadership and Culture-Sculpture

Chris Dages · 2022

Whether you’re an entrepreneur building your first enterprise or a seasoned professional in your prime, it can be challenging keeping the team working together, focused on a common goal. Founder’s Footing offers thirty valuable lessons to help you strengthen…

Hope Is Not a Strategy

How Great Leaders Build Real Accountability

Brandi Chin · 2026

The best schools embrace accountability, they don't run from it. You've got strong teachers. A solid plan. Deep belief in your students. So why are you still getting inconsistent results? Why do some teachers thrive while others struggle with the same…

You Can Be Yourself Here

DDS Dobson-Smith · 2022 · Audiobook

Your inclusive business culture starts here. Does your company or organization have trouble attracting and retaining people from diverse and underrepresented communities? Does your organizational culture suffer from low morale, exclusive cliques, or…

Love as a Business Strategy

Resilience, Belonging & Success

Mohammed Anwar · 2021 · Audiobook

In the face of ever-changing market conditions, leaders are looking for any advantage they can get. And yet, almost every attempt to adapt produces the same results: inconsistent adoption, nonexistent innovation, and flagging performance. To get lasting…

Hired to Quit, Inspired to Stay

Craig Handley

Being an entrepreneur, building a company, and turning a profit isn’t easy. Most businesses will go through highs and lows, and many won’t survive the tough times. To make it through and turn your business around, you need to create a culture of awesomeness.…

Raising Engineers

A Founder's Guide to Building a High-Performing Engineering Team

David Dettmer · 2022

You have the idea, the drive, and now the capital to create the company you’ve always envisioned. Now comes the most important part: assembling a team of high performers. To build a sustainable business, you need engineers who can execute on common goals.…

Simplifying Mining Maintenance

A Practical Guide to Building a Culture that Prevents Breakdowns and Increases Profits

Gerard Wood · 2018

In the world of mining, both mining and asset management professionals often face difficult challenges to improve plant and fleet reliability or cost. Over the years the mining industry has developed complicated systems and processes to deal with the…

Detox

Melanie Pump · 2021 · Audiobook

Is your team willing to propose game-changing ideas and offer diverse opinions? Will they take personal risks for the sake of your company and its reputation? Most leaders can’t answer yes to these questions, especially during critical times of change. Why…

From Like to Love

Keith Alper

Most companies know that winning customers is key. But many don't realize that loyalty starts from the inside, with employees. To build a brand that truly motivates, they must take their employees from liking their jobs to loving them. As CEO of CPG Agency…

Passion to Serve, Grow, and Prosper

Sandana Dass · 2018

In an industry with paper-thin margins, R1 International has become the world's largest rubber-trading company. Its meteoric rise took place because its founder, Sandana Dass, had a singular vision: to create a unique company to redefine rubber trading.…

Invested Leadership

Empower Your Team to Lead with Heart

Eric Sanchez · 2025

The heart holds the antidote to toxic leadership. Low morale and employee disengagement are killing efficiency. Quiet quitting is the norm. Keeping people is as difficult as finding them. Your culture is suffering, but you have no idea why. Eric Sanchez and…

Values Based Organizations

Thomas Epperson · 2025

Why do Values Based Organizations matter? Organizational success today hinges on aligning values and culture-and companies that use this as a business strategy rise above the rest. InnerWill: The Five Practices of Values Based Organizations, the anticipated…

Be Kind

A Radically Different Approach to Leadership

Gui Costin, Morgan Holycross · 2026

In business, your most powerful tool isn't a strategy, a spreadsheet, or a vision. It's your words. The way you speak to your team shapes everything: your culture, your loyalty, the care your employees show one another, the way they treat your customers--even…

Seeing Clearly

Turning Clarity into Culture, Scale, and Legacy

Shawn Gaffney · 2026

Clarity. Culture. Growth. Legacy. From the outside, your company looks successful. From the inside, it feels heavy. Your team is busy, but progress feels uneven. Meetings multiply while alignment thins, and the same friction keeps resurfacing. There's no…

The Corporate Artist

The Art of Working Beautifully

Morgan Sage Norman · 2026

Everyone is playing a character at work. Everyone. You've felt it: the corporate theater, the meetings that accomplish nothing, the cultures that claim to value innovation while punishing the creative risks that make innovation possible. After spending…

Pull Together

Lars Jorgensen · 2023

Nearly every human triumph, launching a product, scaling a mountain, or running a race, depends on teamwork. As a collegiate head swimming coach and former Olympic swimmer and Ironman, Lars Jorgensen understands the value of teams. In Pull Together: The Lost…

The Human Fix to Human Risk

Lise Lapointe · 2023

Effective cyber security strategy requires creating a culture of security awareness. As remote work and new technologies transform our digital landscape, security risks have multiplied. A comprehensive security awareness program is required to ensure everyone…

Broken to Better

Michael Kurland · 2022

Being a business owner is not for the faint of heart. It takes a firm resolve, the ability to persevere and pivot during challenging times, the humility to admit mistakes, and empathy for the people around you. Understanding who you are is critical to that…

BusinessOutside

by Bart Foster (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Bart Foster · 2022

Connection. Renewal. Empowerment. As a business executive, how do you ensure you’re showing up your very best every day? How do you present the real, genuine you at work? And how do you create a culture where your employees can authentically flourish? Being…

EDI Is the New Black

by Joann Wortham (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Joann Wortham · 2022

Want to leap ahead of your competition with a fast, creative team that brings the next big thing to market first, every time? Start by eradicating the implicit EDI-related biases that make it impossible for trust and cohesion to thrive. Diverse teams foster…

It Pays to PLAY

by Kristi Herold (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Kristi Herold · 2022

“All work and no play” makes for a dull workplace…and a costly one. Organizations that provide opportunities for employees to playfully connect, bond, and build friendships see improvements in retention, engagement, and innovation. Intentional play at work…

Scaling Culture

Ron Lovett · 2022

Make no mistake, your company has a culture, whether you’re intentional about it or not.Corporate culture is ground zero for your organization. If left to chance, corporate culture will fall to the lowest common denominator or the loudest voice, resulting…

Taming the Culture Tiger

by Kate Price (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Kate Price · 2022

What if innovation were easier? Imagine if people could work at their full potential and collaborate to create novel solutions to some of the world’s biggest issues? One of the biggest challenges facing leaders of life science organizations is how to foster…

From CULTURE to CULTURE

The System to Define, Implement, Measure, and Improve Your Company Culture

Randall Powers · 2021 · Audiobook

Company culture | (noun) | kuhm-puh-nee kuhl-cher |: The values leaders and employees share, language they use, behaviors they display, and connections they have that establish how they engage and interact in the workplace. Company culture influences the…