Recommended Resources

For anyone experiencing and  feeling frustrated with inefficiency, abundance of meetings, changing priorities, and other challenges of modern work life, I recommend the illustrated version of Reinventing Organizations.

Why? Through the lens that Frederic Laloux offers, these frustrations can be normalized and understood as as a sign to embrace the evolution of operating systems beyond the limitations of traditional hierarchy. Laloux offers examples of what’s possible in the “next-stage” of organizational operations. If you enjoy it, you’ll probably appreciate the more detailed version.

Excerpt: “If there is much pain in the world today, it’s in part because our current ways of being in the world feels increasingly outdated and incapable of dealing with the challenges we are facing. We happen to be in one of these transition periods where the old is starting to break down, but the new hasn’t taken shape yet.”

Deep Work is a personal favorite because of the positive impact it made on the way I work.

Why? It speaks to the lack of depth in our current culture and the value of distraction-free environments and deep concentration. My “focus time” for each of my clients has become much more rich, productive and effective as a result of what I am gleaning from it. I highly recommend it to other introverts and purpose agents or anyone engaged in “focus time.”

A highlight: “The ubiquity of deep work among influential individuals is important to emphasize because it stands in sharp contrast to the behavior of most modern knowledge workers–a group that’s rapidly forgetting the value of going deep.”