The Courage Economy: Why Your Company Runs on Lies and What You Can Do About It

Most organizations unknowingly run on a hidden Lie Economy, where comfortable assumptions and half-truths create short-term harmony while quietly building cynicism, disengagement, and distrust. The Courage Economy reveals why traditional culture initiatives often fail and introduces a new approach built on meaningful work, curiosity, healthy challenge, trust, and community. By making truth easier than avoidance, leaders can move beyond performance theater and create organizations capable of real accountability, innovation, and lasting success.

Teamwork in Talent Development

Teamwork allows us to engage in important work, and teams hold immense power. Those on teams share perspectives, brainstorm ideas, and produce results beyond what’s possible alone. With organizations relying increasingly on teams to deliver impact, teamwork skills are needed more than ever.

Part of the ATD Soft Skills Series, Teamwork in Talent Development is for talent development professionals who serve as team leaders or team members and wish to improve their collaboration abilities, build successful teams, and maximize their team performance for solving business problems, meeting learning needs, promoting culture change, and more.

In this book, you will learn what teamwork means, why teams and teamwork skills matter, and how to overcome common challenges related to teaming. Organization development expert Thane Bellomo introduces a model for how you can form teams and develop your teamwork skills. It starts with framing the work around clear and important goals. This positions you and the team to encourage curiosity and build trust while you embrace conflict and engage in (healthy) conflict.

Included are detailed takeaways and advice for applying the concepts.

The Courage to Lead: Essays on Truth, Teams, and Human Flourishing

This collection brings together essays written over two decades of working with Fortune 500 organizations—from nuclear power plants to healthcare systems to manufacturing giants. These aren’t theoretical frameworks or consultant-speak. They’re field notes from the front lines of organizational life.

Inside, you’ll find essays on:

• Culture & Change: Why culture is simply what you reward and punish (and why training never changes it).
• Leadership Practice: What it means to love your people, lead with curiosity, and choose truth over comfort.
• Building People: Why “employees own their development” is a cop-out, and what honest development looks like.
• Team Dynamics: Why teams need conflict, not harmony—and how to make disagreement productive.
• Modern Challenges: Wrestling with standards and inclusion, the attention widget crisis, and organizational fads that waste everyone’s time.
• The Bigger Picture: What happens when work becomes our only source of meaning, community, and purpose.