The votes are in and we have a near tie for the top spot. I decided to re-read Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath first. Part of the rationale is that I have two copies of this book and have not read Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say–and What You Don’t by L. David Marquet – yet. Once we have completed Made to Stick, we will launch ourselves into Leadership Is Language. By then I will have read the book for the first time. 

I will be re-reading the expanded version published in 2008. The book has an Introduction, six chapters, an epilogue, Sticky Advice, and an easy reference guide. The Sticky Advice is the added material the publisher indicates makes it “now extra sticky.” My copy is 323 pages with the index.

Re-read logistics

I plan to re-read Made to Stick over the next nine weeks (plus or minus one). My estimated completion date is Sep 2, 2023 making this our summer book. One of my focus areas will be how to unstick bad ideas. For example, I ran across a team with two team leads who were rotating the role of Scrum Master and Product Owner every sprint. The two TLs were convinced that the team’s high turnover rate and inability to deliver had nothing to do with how the roles were structured. They had been told the approach was a best practice from one of the big-name consulting firms. Asking to see the source material did not win me any friends. For some reason the idea was sticky. Over the next nine weeks, I would like to ascertain why and how to unstick it.

Next week we begin in earnest.  Buy a copy of  Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and re-read along!