How does your team grow? How do you develop your teams and employees? Art is essential in building our imaginations, especially our shared imaginations, and literature, in particular, plays an important role in securing one's ideas, vocabulary, and intellectual architecture on a given subject. Communal reading--when a team or group of people chooses a piece of literature to study together--can be an efficient, effective, and enjoyable way to increase buy-in, promote unity, and build a momentum of shared vocabulary and ideas. Does your team read together? If not, consider working with a Nostos consultant to guide your team or organization through a book, studied together at a pace that works for your team, while also focusing on key concepts your leadership identifies beforehand. Communal reading includes a reading plan, regular discussion meetings, a study guide, and recorded lectures that can be viewed by your team members at their leisure. Below is a list of books we use to lead companies or groups in communal reading: 

Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey Jr. 
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
The Seven Laws of Leading by Brian G. Daigle
Humble Inquiry by Edgar Schein