The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

I bought this book due to my obsession with Harry Nyquist. I wrote about Nyquist on LinkedIn after I read How to Know a Person, and someone mentioned that this book talked about him as the well.

The book is a solid introduction to all the things that make for a “good culture.” Things like psychological safety. vulnerability, curiosity, etc.

I don’t know that anything in the book was ground-breaking, but it was all very good and inspirational. It lays out a solid description of a place I would like to work, and a place that I would like to create, if anyone ever came to work for me.

I would lump this book in the “aspirational” category. I don’t know that I lot of it is readily actionable, but it’s a book I would dump on the deck of the office asshole and tell him to read it. Some people just need to understand that there’s a better way.

(Note: I’ve created a website that I’m still working on: Nyquistian.)