Worth Your Time
Books and resources recommended by Michael.
A growing collection of ideas that have shaped how I think about teams, leadership, organizational design and turning direction into meaningful work.
Product management
Creating products customers value and building organizations around outcomes rather than output.
INSPIRED
A practical foundation for product discovery, strong product teams and creating technology products that work for customers and the business.
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Escaping the Build Trap
A sharp explanation of why output-driven organizations keep shipping without creating value—and what effective product management must change.
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User Story Mapping
A practical way to build shared understanding of a product, keep the user's journey visible and slice work into releases that deliver meaningful outcomes.
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Product Management Tools, Frameworks & Infographics
A useful collection of practical templates and frameworks for product vision, strategy, roadmaps, personas, goals, KPIs, feedback and product backlogs.
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The Beautiful Mess
Nuanced, practical writing about the realities of cross-functional product development, organizational change, decision-making and helping teams work more effectively.
Read the blogTeams & organizational health
Building cohesive teams, creating clarity and making work more meaningful.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A simple, memorable model for naming the patterns that quietly undermine a team—and doing something about them.
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The Advantage
Lencioni's most complete view of organizational health: a cohesive leadership team, real clarity and systems that reinforce both.
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The Ideal Team Player
Humble, hungry and smart is an immediately useful lens for hiring, developing and talking about how people contribute to a team.
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Liberating Structures
An open collection of simple interaction patterns that include every voice, distribute participation and help groups collaborate, learn and solve complex problems together.
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Leading with honesty, choosing better language and earning trust through service.
Radical Candor
A useful framework for giving direct feedback without losing the personal care that makes honesty constructive.
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Leadership Is Language
Shows how small changes in a leader's language can replace control and compliance with ownership and better decisions.
Explore the bookOrganizational design
Designing structures, boundaries and operating models that help organizations adapt and deliver value.
Organization Design
A rigorous, practical toolkit for working with roles, units, interfaces and the complexity created by organizational structure.
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Creating Agile Organizations
A systemic approach to aligning strategy, structure, processes and people practices—with concrete guidance for designing and evolving agile organizations at scale.
10X ORG
A people-centered org design system for aligning strategy, structure, learning and AI. It also includes the Strobbo journey and Michael's work there.
Navigating Complexity of Cognitive Load in Software Product Development
Clears up common misconceptions about cognitive load and makes a strong case for fluid ownership, backed by systems thinking and practical ways to reduce cognitive friction.
Reinventing Organizations
A challenge to many default assumptions about management, grounded in examples of self-management, wholeness and evolutionary purpose.
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Architect van je organisatie
A practical, systemic view of organizations as living systems, connecting organizational design with the conditions people need to contribute their best work.
Systems thinking & flow
Seeing the whole system, understanding constraints and improving how value and learning flow through it.
The Fifth Discipline
A foundational book for seeing organizations as living systems and understanding what it takes to become a learning organization.
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The Goal
A compelling introduction to the Theory of Constraints: improve the whole system by finding its limiting constraint, managing flow and repeating the process.
Direction & execution
Connecting long-term purpose to visible, meaningful work.
The Infinite Game
A helpful shift from short-term winning to purpose, resilience and the responsibility to keep improving over time.
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Leading with Obeya
A practical bridge between strategy and daily execution through visual management, shared context and better leadership conversations.
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