Required reading for a role that barely exists.
CBO Media is the publishing house of the Chief Behavioral Officer: books, briefings, and films about why people in organizations do what they do, and why so remarkably little of it is anyone's fault.
The library precedes the profession
About the imprintEvery discipline acquires its literature before it acquires its job titles. Accountants kept ledgers for centuries before anyone sat in a chair marked CFO, and quality had its textbooks long before it had its departments, which suggests that if you want to know which roles will sit on the org charts of the next decade, you should watch what serious people are reading rather than what companies are hiring.
CBO Media is built on that bet. Somewhere in your organization there is already a person who reads the engagement survey the way a mechanic listens to an engine, who suspects that the incentive plan is producing exactly the behavior it rewards and none of the behavior it intends, and who has quietly stopped believing that the answer is another workshop. One day that person's card will say Chief Behavioral Officer.
We publish their required reading now: field methods rather than airport theory, briefings rather than trend reports, and true stories in which the punchline is a mechanism, not a moral.
Books
Drive Method
The field method for building motivation into the structure of work itself, so that performance stops depending on the weather. Ten myths, seven insights, and a five‑step roadmap from current status to a management system that keeps running after the rewards stop.
Get the bookThe Misfit Playbook
The workbook for diagnosing where a system triggers the wrong behavior through the right mechanism, or the right behavior through the wrong one, and for deciding what to redesign first. The practitioner companion to the Drive Method.
Get the bookMotivieren Sie nicht
A guide for parents who have already tried everything, and the opening volume of a German series about doing the opposite of what the reflex suggests. Its central finding travels well beyond the kitchen table: children who stop trying are not lazy, they are excellent economists.
Periodicals
The weekly behavioral intelligence briefing. One concept, one organizational implication, one thing to do differently. Five minutes that change what you notice in your own meetings for the rest of the week.
Read & subscribeOrganizations are built for efficiency. Humans are not wired for it. The quarterly long read on what sits in that gap, and on what a Chief Behavioral Officer would do about it.
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The Bias Files
True, documented stories in which a cognitive bias is the main character. Each episode names the bias in its first breath, lets history demonstrate the mechanism, and lands the transfer somewhere uncomfortably close to your Tuesday meeting.
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Where this fitsEngaginglab
Where behavioral systems are designed and built for organizations. Audits, architecture, and the Drive Method applied in the field, since 2009.
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Where practitioners learn the craft. The Drive Method masterclass and certification for people who design systems that produce behavior on purpose.
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Where the thinking is published. Books, periodicals, and film for the readers who will hold the title before the title exists.
You are standing in the library.