The Workpath library — open for the public
Get inspired by some of the books we love
One of our operating principles at Workpath is “Grow and help growing everyday”. While we all believe in the purpose of Workpath to unleash human value creation in today’s organizations, equally important is the personal development and growth of everyone involved on this journey. Bringing together so many brilliant minds from diverse backgrounds offers a unique opportunity to learn from each other’s experiences. We therefore started several initiatives to foster these opportunities, e.g. having knowledge sessions where anyone from the team can prepare and present a topic of her/his choosing while others can contribute as well.
Another initiative is the continuous evolving of our internal library (yes, we actually love having paper books in our office). Every employee can suggest books as a new addition to the library, it therefore grows every month and many of us take advantage to take out a book every once in a while. To make the library accessible for everyone, we would like to share some of the books we love at Workpath. We would like to give you a feeling of what it is like to share knowledge at Workpath, how our team thinks and what knowledge nuggets our team members suggest. Feel free to simply get inspired and take away some recommendations for your next book to read. We are happy about your feedback and own recommendations.
A Guide to the Good Life
The ancient art of stoic joy
What? This book explains the ideas of (mostly roman) stoicism without you having to read old philosophy books and applies its concepts to modern life.
Why? The Stoic principles entail a philosophy for any individual who would like to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. Stoicism is the philosophical answer and summary of many lifestyles aiming to improve the true quality of life such as minimal lifestyle and digital detox. It is also a gateway to other philosophies and different ideologies.
The Big Five for Life
A story of one man and leadership’s greatest secret
What? This business parable tells the story of a successful businessman from the United States. While his companies are profitable, the employees love working for him and the customers queue up, he is dying at the age of 55. Through conversations during this time with the most important people in his life, the reader learns about the insights he gathered throughout the years of experience and the impact he had on the people surrounding him.
Why? It makes you think about what you really want to achieve in life and what is important to you. Since you spend at least one third of your life working, it represents a key pillar in your life purpose as well. This offers a great connection between the message of this book and our shared purpose at Workpath: unleashing human value creation.
Good to Great
by Jim Collins
Why some companies make the leap… and others don’t
What? The author describes the characteristics of companies which went from average to above-average market performance. By analyzing 28 companies over 30 years, they present a set of strategies, habits and best practices which help to turn a company from good to great.
Why? While you learn a lot about the different pillars which make an organization successful (what we want to achieve with Workpath as well), there are also many personal takeaways, such as finding your personal hedgehog concept (the triad between passion, ability and business motor).
Inspired
by Marty Cagan
How to create tech products customers love
What? Throughout his career, author Marty Cagan has made extensive experiences working with mostly tech companies. In this book, he examines the pillars which are essential when developing products customers ultimately love.
Why? It helped us at Workpath to design and develop new features for our product more iteratively, faster and customer-centric. A must-read for everyone out there aiming to push the consumerization of enterprise, i.e. building products enterprise users love.
Radical Candor
by Kim Scott
Be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity
What? Author Kim Scott has worked with some of the best companies in Silicon Valley and has founded her own companies as well. During this course, she has experienced and learned how great bosses differ from average and bad ones: being radically candid with the people around them, i.e. care personally for the people who work with you and challenge them directly.
Why? The key lessons from this book combine two of our core values at Workpath. We care for each other and We stay critical are values which all of us share. We are convinced that keeping the balance between these two helps advancing the professional and personal development of everyone.
Subscribed
by Tien Tzuo
Why the subscription model will be your company’s future — and what to do about it
What? The founder of Zuora, an enterprise software for subscription-based businesses, explains the shift in businesses going from products to services and why it makes sense to think about becoming a subscription-based business. In the end, the key business essence is to create ongoing value for your customers.
Why? Besides the obvious reasons (Workpath is a subscription-based software business), it also describes a shift many of our customers are experiencing and aiming to solve. To sustain your competitive advantage, a business ultimately needs to create ongoing value for its customers. Besides that, it is a beautiful example for content marketing and how a company is able to build and own a category — in this case the subscription economy.
If this article made you curious to find out more about Workpath, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
Also, even if you are happy in your current job, we are glad to keep you posted about job opportunities here. Feel free to join our talent pool or to send a mail to jobs@workpath.com. If you have any feedback or wishes what you want to read next, you can always approach us via people@workpath.com.
