Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE

Hand everyone a blank three-by-five-inch card. Then ask each person to write down his or her one-sentence answer to the following question: “What is our company’s (or organization’s) purpose?”

Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace BY RICARDO SEMLER

Then We Came to the End BY JOSHUA FERRIS

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes BY ALFIE KOHN

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience BY MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE

company’s revenue and profit in the next two years; levels of satisfaction among your customers; ideas for new products; and evaluations of your coworkers. If you’re smart, you’ll probably try to sell your product, serve your customers, help your teammates, and, well, do good work. When metrics are varied, they’re harder to finagle. In addition, th

Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet BY HOWARD GARDNER, MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, AND WILLIAM DAMON