Best business & organizational learning books according to redditors

There is a company that trademarked the term "Corporate Family" (you can find it on the USPTO), and the dude also wrote books about "family", "children", and "siblings" in the business setting.

Here is from one of their books (link for proof at the bottom):

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>Every business is a corporate family. It doesn’t matter if your company has ten employees or ten thousand; the relational bonds within the organization are very similar to those in the basic family unit. Executive leaders who guide the company are like parents: setting expectations, developing skill sets and habits, checking progress, and rewarding good effort. And all employees experience varying degrees of sibling rivalry as they look to the “parents” for instruction and guidance, strive to meet expectations, vie for attention, and even test limits.

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>When you enter any business, you should find a group of people working together with a shared purpose to fulfill a set of objectives. Whether the business is a bakery, a bank, or an international investment firm, all members operate within their unique culture, depending on each other to uphold responsibilities and looking to the “head” for direction. By definition, a family is a group that has commonality, typically comprised of parents and their children. In a sense, every business is like a family—we call this your “Corporate Family.”

https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Family-Matters-Steve-Wilke/dp/061535775X

Wow. So there's a lot here - are you asking for purely written books or are websites OK?

First, look in your local bookstore! That being said, Amazon has a ton (these are ones I've read):

Gar Alperovitz - America Beyond Capitalism

William Whyte - Making Mondragon

Marina Sitrin - Horizontalism

Frank T Adams - Putting Democracy to Work

Encrico Masseti - Coop: Made in the USA

Seymour Melman - After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy

David Schweickart - After Capitalism


Also, take a look at this PDF on Tech Worker coops which I contributed to.

Amazon has a bunch I haven't read.


Websites (which list quite a few books/articles relevant here):

http://usworker.coop/education
http://usworker.coop/faceted_search/

http://www.american.coop/
http://american.coop/node/119

http://www.geo.coop/
http://www.geo.coop/replication-of-arizmendi

And finally, the article that got me started on the road to cooperating:
A Cooperative Manifesto by Tim Huet.

Films - there are a lot, but the only ones that are easy to get a hold of are:

The Take

Capitalism: A Love Story - though this only has a small portion on coops and some more in the extras

Some More:

This Way Out

Shift Change - not out yet but based on the trailer it looks off the hook.

Argentina Turning Around

Well, I don't know if it is done yet, but if not soon it will be.

Here is interesting book on a topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-HR-Successful-Workforce/dp/0749483814

If anybody is using tool you mentioned, I think it may be Amazon. Of course.

One of the best books I've read on this topic is Organizational Physics by Lex Sisney. It's all about putting the right people in the right places and creating effective strategies for managing them. He describes the process of building a company as an organism: who should report into who according to what stage you are in the business, to encourage a stable system over entropy. An incredibly well thought out strategy for running teams in my view.

Here are all the local Amazon links I could find:


amazon.co.uk

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amazon.com.au

amazon.in

amazon.com.mx

amazon.de

amazon.it

amazon.es

amazon.com.br

amazon.nl

amazon.co.jp

amazon.fr

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Can you find this one: Field guide to consulting and organizational development https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Consulting-Organizational-Development/dp/1933719206

This book will give you a general look at how to structure your business:
http://businessmodelgeneration.com/book?_ga=1.52216620.464515984.1419200286


However what you are asking for is very specific.

There are books on risk management or financial modeling but I'm not sure who usually publishes those books. For example, I bought one about organisation design:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Economist-Guide-Organisation-Design/dp/1861978022#customerReviews

The above can help with the 'company structure and organization'.

I can also check tomorrow which book I got last year in university for corporate accounting and such.

For business analyst stuff, I would actually love to get my hands on some book that covers this area. The problem here is that this discipline is not developed as much as the others, so even when there are books about them, they're not as optimised as the other ones.

But I'm also not a pro at looking stuff up.

Anyway, good luck

I didn’t really use the learning system too much, tbh. I used the flash cards and this book.

Edit: I skimmed this one as well.

Thanks. I actually found a separate SHRM-CP/SCP study guide coming out on October 2016 that's a lot cheaper on Amazon. Not sure how reliable it'll be but I think I'll invest in that:

http://www.amazon.com/SHRM-CP-SHRM-SCP-Certification-All-Guide/dp/1259583422/ref=oosr

I wrote mine down: https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Human-Cultivating-Organization/dp/0692900748/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496867580&sr=1-1&keywords=more+than+human+protzmann

NOT trying to sell anything here! But I believe there are many of us searching for better ways; you and I are not alone.