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30 Jan, 32 tweets, 8 min read
Organisation design is getting a lot of people very excited. There’s a lot written about it. Here’s my 🧵 of books which have helped my thinking.

(Please comment with your suggestions. I’ve definitely not read everything there is.)
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity at the Heart of Software (2003) by Eric Evans goodreads.com/book/show/1791…
Team Topologies by Skelton and Pais (2019) goodreads.com/book/show/4413…
Patterns of Anarchy by Krimerman and Perry (1966) goodreads.com/book/show/1663…
The Essential Drucker by Drucker (2007) goodreads.com/book/show/1087…
The Toyota Way by Liker (2004)
goodreads.com/book/show/1617…
Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Spaces and Sociocracy by Eckstien and Buck (2017) goodreads.com/book/show/3507…
Let My People Go Surfing by Chouinard (2016) goodreads.com/book/show/2825…
The Fifth Discipline by Senge (2006)
goodreads.com/book/show/2551…
Reinventing Organisations by Laloux (2014) goodreads.com/book/show/2078…
Holacracy by Robertson (2013) goodreads.com/book/show/2561…
Agile IT Organisation Design by Narayan (2015) goodreads.com/book/show/2361…
Powerful by McCord (2018) goodreads.com/book/show/3641…
Tribes by Godin (2008) goodreads.com/book/show/3828…
Everything so far I’ve read. The following I’ve had recommended to me, but I’ve not had time to get to them.
Requisite Organization by Jamie’s (2004) goodreads.com/book/show/1878…
Ackoff’s Best by Ackoff (1999)
goodreads.com/book/show/1623…
Jam Cultures by Kramer (2020)
goodreads.com/book/show/5292…
And the remainder are things which are also inspiring reads in the area... #OrgDesign
Creativity Inc by Catmull and Wallace (2014) goodreads.com/book/show/1807…
101 Things I Learned at Architecture School by Frederick (2007) goodreads.com/book/show/1958…
A Pattern Language by Alexander et al (1977) goodreads.com/book/show/79766
The Goal by Goldratt (2004) goodreads.com/book/show/1139…
It’s Not Luck by Goldratt (2002)
goodreads.com/book/show/1573…
The DevOps Handbook by Kim (2016) goodreads.com/book/show/2608…
Tribal Leadership by Logan (2008)
goodreads.com/book/show/2741…
Good to Great by Collins (2001)
goodreads.com/book/show/76865
Turn the Ship Around! by Marquet (2013) goodreads.com/book/show/1615…
Out of the Crisis by Deming (2000) goodreads.com/book/show/5665…
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Raymond (2001) goodreads.com/book/show/1348…
The Mythical Man Month by Brooks (1995) goodreads.com/book/show/13629
Accelerate by Forsgren, Humble and Kim (2018)
goodreads.com/book/show/3574…

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