Recommended Reading

Explore these articles, books, and videos to deepen your understanding of psychological safety, habitual excellence, and organizational learning.

📚 Books

• Playbook for Habitual Excellence by Paul O’Neill
  A short e-book outlining how values-driven leadership and systems thinking can drive excellence in organizations.

  • E-book

• The High Velocity Edge by Steven Spear
  An essential read on how organizations learn faster and adapt better.

  • Book: Bookshop.org, Amazon.

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
  Classic on how habits shape individuals and institutions—and how to change them.

  • Check out

    Charles Duhigg
    ’s Substack
    The Science of Better
    for more.

• The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety by Timothy R. Clark
  Defines the path to creating inclusive, innovative teams using his widely adopted model.

  • Book: Bookshop.org, Amazon

📄 Articles & Videos

• The Four Stages of Psychological Safety
  A foundational piece outlining the framework by Timothy Clark—moving from inclusion safety to innovation safety.

• Building a Psychologically Safe Workplace | Amy Edmondson | TEDxHGSE
  Edmondson shares what psychological safety is, why it matters, and how leaders can build it.

• The Thinking Production System by Michael Ballé, et al. — The SoL Journal of Knowledge, Learning and Change, Vol. 7, No. 2

  • A deep dive into learning organizations. For more from Ballé, check out his blog: Lead With Lean