Over the past year, teams have adapted to remote working, learning new skills and tools to stay productive and connected—in fact, they've been so successful that productivity increased 5%. But with the pandemic coming under control in the US, leaders now are evaluating the return to the office. These books will help you navigate the return to the office—whatever that looks like for your team.

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Is now the perfect time to form a company book club? Well, I'm a huge fan of getting book clubs together (and I've seen instances of the CEO just mentioning that he/she is reading a certain book lead to informal but impactful culture change), so yes. Do it. Do it now. The trick, as ever, is to pick a good book.

Second, Strategy+Business has a list of best business summer reading books, spanning from high level concepts around what humanity means, to building better experiments at work.

Author and employer branding expert James Ellis shares his 16 top employer branding book recommendations to take your branding to the next level.

If you’re looking for a good book, take a look at Brain Surfing by Heather LeFevre. Imagine if a very smart brand strategist decided to take an eat, pray, love style trip to meet the world’s most interesting brand strategists. Good stuff.