Readable cases and field-tested ideas for carrying knowledge across projects, teams, and institutions.
Books
Books for mission learning, knowledge strategy, and project leadership.
A curated shelf of Dr. Ed Hoffman's authored work and selected recommendations for leaders who care about people, knowledge, decisions, and performance under complexity.
Books shaped by decades of work with high-stakes teams, learning systems, and mission organizations.
Selected reading on judgment, decision-making, human and machine intelligence, and the ideas shaping complex work.
MIT Press · Axiom Business Book Award
The Smart Mission
NASA's Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects
Co-authored with Matthew Kohut and Laurence Prusak, The Smart Mission draws from NASA's experience to show how organizations become smarter when people, projects, and knowledge move together with intent.
Authored Work
Books by Edward J. Hoffman.
MIT Press · 2022
The Smart Mission
NASA's lessons for managing knowledge, people, and projects in complex organizations.
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NASA · 2005
Shared Voyage
Learning and unlearning from remarkable projects, with lessons for teams doing consequential work.
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Wiley · 2000
Project Management Success Stories
Lessons of project leaders, written for professionals navigating the realities of project work.
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Selected chapters and contributions.
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Why Nothing WorksProgress + Institutions
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Restarting the FutureIntangible Economy
The Secret of ApolloSystems Management
Snapshots of the MindJudgment + Expertise
Sources of PowerDecision-Making
Artificial OrganizationsHuman + Machine Intelligence
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