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Every book Heidi Helfand recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Heidi Helfand has recommended or discussed 10 books on podcasts, as of January 18, 2024.
- Heidi Helfand has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of January 18, 2024.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of January 18, 2024.
- The 3 books Heidi Helfand has mentioned in the most episodes, as of January 18, 2024: Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures and Transitions.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Heidi Helfand aired on January 18, 2024.
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Heidi Helfand’s most recommended books
- Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner
- The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures by Henri Lipmanowicz
- Transitions by William Bridges
Heidi Helfand appeared on Lenny's Podcast to discuss the art and wisdom of changing teams. Throughout the conversation, she referred to her own book, Dynamic Reteaming, explaining why she chose the term reteaming instead of reorganization. She also shared how her company once used Steve Blank's book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany, as a manual while validating a new product direction, and she mentioned an older book from the 1970s titled TeamWork that features a story about an isolated SWAT team saving the Chicken McNugget. When asked about books she most frequently recommended to others, Heidi named several titles. She recommended The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless, and she suggested the Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Another key recommendation was Transitions by William Bridges and Susan Bridges, a book she praised for outlining the stages of endings, neutral zones, and new beginnings that people experience during periods of change. Heidi explained that Bridges's framework applies broadly to various organizational and personal developments, even though it was not originally written specifically about product development or team dynamics.
Books Heidi Helfand recommended or discussed
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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
Recommended“and of course transitions by William Bridges I also like the leader guide to participatory decision making”
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The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
Recommended“first question what are two or three books that youve recommended most to other people leading intelligent teams is one liberating structures is another one and of course transitions by William Bridges”
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Transitions
Recommended“um there's a book by William Bridges called uh transitions managing life's changes I have it right here making sense of life's changes he talks about endings neutral zone and New Beginning”
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Drive
Discussed“like it it it brings me satisfaction and joy when I see my colleagues you know it's like autonomy Mastery purpose it's like Dan Pink's book drive when people are really like given some agency”
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Dynamic Reteaming
Discussed“and when I was writing Dynamic R teing it just didn't feel like an appropriate word to use for well um you know uh Sue is looking to learn a little bit about how our web operations work”
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Managing Corporate Lifecycles
Discussed“there's a book by sakadas called managing corporate life cycles it's one that many of us read um for years at at folio maybe the previous company as well the adus Institute influenced some of our leaders”
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TeamWork
Discussed“the Chicken McNugget was saved by an isolated team SWAT team um um there's a book called teamwork it's an old book from I think the 70s I have in my bookshelf here”
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The culture code
Discussed“there's some research in the book the culture code by Daniel Coyle which talks about that but then it's also important to coach the people through change that are already at the company”
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Discussed“we became like the the our Founders and product and others became students of Market validation four steps The Epiphany so we had built this thing we spent all this time on this Marketplace but nobody would buy it”
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Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
Discussed“you know we have this challenge today we decide oh there's a few ways we could handle this pros and cons of each solution and let's you know it's like the it's it's like the Kata it's like the Toyota Kata”
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Books Heidi Helfand wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming) | Lenny's Podcast | 2024-01-18 | 13 |