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Strategic Planning | Human Resources | Operational Effectiveness | Leadership Development | Belonging & Inclusion | Race & Ethnicity | Sexual Orientation & Gender | Age | Ability | Religious & Cultural Beliefs
Strategic Planning
📖 Books
Blue Ocean Strategy - By: W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
Emergent Strategy - By: Adrienne Maree Brown
Good to Great - By: Jim Collins
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works - By: A.G. Lafley & Roger Martin
The Art of Strategy - By: Avinash K. Dixit & Barry Nalebuff
📝 Articles
The Eight Essentials of Innovation - By: Marc de Jong, Nathan Marston, and Erik Roth
Five Essentials of Strategic Planning - By: Paul B. Redman
Why Strategy Execution Unravels - By: Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes & Charles Sull
Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance - By: Michael Mankins & Richard Steele
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy - By: Martin Reeves
Strategy Execution - By: Paul Leinwand
Human Resources
📖 Books
Work Rules! - By: Laszlo Bock
The Essential HR Handbook - By: Sharon Armstrong & Barbara Mitchell
Love ’Em or Lose ’Em - By: Beverly Kaye & Sharon Jordan-Evans
Drive - By: Daniel H. Pink
Powerful - By: Patty McCord
📝Articles
People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO - By: Ram Charan, Dominic Barton & Dennis Carey
Rewriting the Rules for the Digital Workforce - By: MIT Sloan
People-Centric HR Is Crucial For A Successful Workplace Culture - By: Jeff Schmitz
What Great Managers Do - By: Marcus Buckingham
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
Why It’s Time to Forget the Pecking Order at Work - By: Margaret Heffernan
The Shift to Skills-Based Hiring - By: HBR Ideacast
WorkLife - By: Adam Grant
Operational Effectiveness
📖 Books
Measure What Matters - By: John Doerr
Multipliers - By: Liz Wiseman
The Advantage - By: Patrick Lencioni
The Toyota Way - By: Jeffrey K. Liker
The One Minute Manager - By: Ken Blanchard
📝Articles
The Hard Side of Change Management - By: Harold Sirkin, Perry Keenan & Alan Jackson
Organizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance - By: Alex Camp, Arne Gast, Drew Goldstein, and Brooke Weddle
Building High-Performance Teams with Clear Expectations - By: JD Meier
Why Good Projects Fail Anyway - By: Harvard Business Review
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
How to Manage for Collective Creativity - By: Linda Hill
What Makes a Great Team Culture? - By: David Burkus
Creating High Performance Culture - By: Patty McCord
Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe - By: Simon Sinek
Leadership Development
📖 Books
Lead From the Outside - By: Stacey Abrams
Primal Leadership - By: Daniel Goleman
Dare to Lead - By: Brené Brown
True North - By: Bill George
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - By: John Maxwell
📝Articles
What Makes a Leader? - By: Daniel Goleman
The Authenticity Paradox - By: Herminia Ibarra
Leading with Purpose in Uncertain Times - By: Bill Schaninger
Leadership Is a Conversation - By: Boris Groysberg
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
How Great Leaders Inspire Action - By: Simon Sinek
The Power of Vulnerability - By: Brené Brown
We Should All Be Feminists - By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How to Own Your Power at Work - By: Carla Harris
Coaching Real Leaders - By: Muriel Wilkins
Belonging & Inclusion
📖Books
We Can't Talk about That at Work! - By: Mary-Frances Winters
Inclusive Conversations - By: Mary-Frances Winters
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias - By: Dolly Chugh
The Wake Up - By: Michelle MiJung Kim
Belonging - By: Geoffrey L. Cohen
📝Articles
Inclusive Workplaces: Lessons from Theory and Practice - By: Neharika Vohra, et al.
Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations - By: Juliet Bourke & Bernadette Dillon
The Power of Belonging in the Workplace - By: BetterUp Labs
Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams - By: Amy Edmondson
Why “Culture Fit” Is a Failed Strategy - By: Patty McCord
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace - By: Janet Stovall
The Power of Privilege - By: Tiffany Jana (TEDx)
Dare to Disagree - By: Margaret Heffernan
Code Switch - By: Gene Demby, et al.
Race & Ethnicity
📖Books
How to Be An Antiracist - By: Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility - By: Robin DiAngelo
The New Jim Crow - By: Michelle Alexander
Caste - By: Isabel Wilkerson
Black Fatigue - By: Mary-Frances Winters
📝Articles
Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis - By: Chandra L Ford and Collins O Airhihenbuwa
The Case for Reparations - By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Origins of Privilege - By: Peggy McIntosh
The Problem with Colorblindness - By: Monnica Williams
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
Latinos Who Lunch - By: FavyFav and Babelito
Code Switch - By: Mariya Karimjee, et al.
The Urgency of Intersectionality - By: Kimberlé Crenshaw
How Racism Makes Us Sick - By: David R. Williams
Seeing White - By: Scene On Radio
Sexual Orientation & Gender
📖Books
Annie’s Plaid Shirt (K – 1) - By: Stacy B. Davids
The Boy & the Bindi (Pre-K – 2) - By: Vivek Shraya
I am Jazz (K – 5) - By: Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
Safe Space - By: Christina B. Hanhardt
📝Articles
Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case - By: Robin J. Ely and David A. Thomas
LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Workplace - By: Catalyst
The Experiences of Trans Employees - By: David Baboolall, et al.
Pronouns and Why They Matter - By: GLSEN
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
Queering Desi - By: Priya Arora
Women’s Hour Daily - By: Anita Rani and Nuala McGovern
Why We Need Gender-Neutral Bathrooms - By: Ivan Coyote
The Danger of Hiding Who You Are - By: Morgana Bailey
Making Gay History - By: Eric Marcus
Age
📖Books
Generational Diversity at Work - By: Emma Parry
The Remix - By: Lindsey Pollak
Wisdom at Work - By: Chip Conley
📝Articles
Generational Differences at Work Are Small. Thinking They’re Big Affects Our Behavior - By: Eden King, et al.
The Impact of Ageism in the Workplace - By: Heather Nezich
Managing Five Generations in the Workplace - By: Nigel Pritchard
Rethinking Talent: Inclusion Doesn’t End At Age 50 - By: Gilda D'Incerti
The Myth Of Generational Differences: Why It’s Time To Drop The Labels - By: Jessica Kriegel
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
How Generational Stereotypes Hold Us Back At Work - By: Leah Georges
Rising Above Generational Stereotypes In The Workplace - By: Michael Strawser
ReThinking: Aging and Advantage - By: Adam Grant
Ability
📖Books
The Power of Different - By: Gail Saltz
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain - By: Thomas Armstrong
Demystifying Disability - By: Emily Ladau
📝Articles
The Myth of the Normal Brain: Embracing Neurodiversity - By: Thomas Armstrong, PhD
8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health - By: Kelly Greenwood and Natasha Krol
DEI Should Include Neurodiversity. Here’s Why - By: Maya Richard-Craven
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
Changing the Way We Talk About Disability - By: Amy Oulton
I'm Not Your Inspiration - By: Stella Young
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Autism - By: Wendy Chung
Religious & Cultural Beliefs
📖Books
Religion and the Workplace Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership - By: Douglas A. Hicks
Culture Code - By: Dan Coyle
📝Articles
Spirituality and Religion in the Workplace: History, Theory, and Research - By: Margaret Benefiel
The Future of Religion in the Workplace - By: Nancy Mann Jackson
Why Cultural Intelligence Matters - By: P. Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski
Understanding Cultural Humility - By: Melanie Tervalon & Jann Murray-Garcia
🎧Podcasts/TED Talks
Identity Politics - By: Ikhlas Saleem and Makkah Ali
Interfaith Voices - By: Maureen Fiedler
The Danger of a Single Story - By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler