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This is a collection of books we recommend your read if you wish to achieve a deeper understanding of what company culture is and what companies are doing to embed their culture into their organisations.

These books cover topics ranging from change management, corporate social responsibility, employee engagement, customer experience and customer satisfaction, manifesto development, core values definition, mission and vision statement definition to diversity in the workplace.

Books by Edgar Schein, Frederic Laloux, Yvon Chouinard, Laszlo Bock, Ray Dalio, Ricardo Semler, Daniel Pink, Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey

The Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey

Reinventing Organisations

Frederic Laloux

Let my people go surfing

Yvon Chouinard

The Values Driven Organisation

Richard Barrett

Freedom Inc.: How Corporate Liberation Unleashes Employee Potential and Business Performance

Brian M. Carney and Isaac Getz

Originals How non-conformists move the world

Adam Grant

Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture that Outperforms the Competition

Ann Rhoades

The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

Noam Wasserman

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Laszlo Bock

Build the Culture Advantage, Deliver Sustainable Performance with Clarity and Speed

Tim Kuppler, Ted Garnett, Tom Morehead, Scott Beilke

The Southwest Airlines Way

Jody Hoffer Gittell

Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love

Richard Sheridan

Principles

Ray Dalio

Maverick - The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

Ricardo Semler

The seven day weekend

Ricardo Semler

The Culting of Brands

Douglas Atkin

The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence

Robert Spector

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind

Vishen Lakhiani, founder & CEO Mindvalley

Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You mean

Kim Scott

ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever

Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hanssen

Nuts!: Southwest Airline's Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

Kevin Freiberg

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - A Leadership Fable

Patrick M. Lencioni

Organizational Culture & Leadership

Edgar Schein

Culture rules and culture has rules - The 10 core principles of corporate culture

John R Childress

The Culture Code: Secrets of Highly Effective Groups

Daniel Coyle

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

Teresa Amabile & Steven Kramer

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel Pink

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm

Verne Harnish

Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation

Neel Doshi & Lindsay McGregor