Reading collection
Leadership & Management
Books about leading teams, building organizations, and managing with clarity.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace · 2014
Creativity, Inc.
Original work survives when the room is brave enough to tell the truth while the idea is still fragile.
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Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 2013
Decisive
A better decision is rarely the loudest option. It is the one that survives alternatives, evidence, distance, and a plan for being wrong.
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Daniel H. Pink · 2009
Drive
The deepest drive is not a prize dangled in front of us, but the chance to direct our lives, improve at meaningful work, and serve something larger.
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Daniel Goleman · 1995
Emotional Intelligence
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.
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Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves · 2009
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Emotional intelligence is not the absence of heat. It is the skill of keeping your best self available while the heat is present.
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Jocko Willink, Leif Babin · 2015
Extreme Ownership
Leadership starts the moment the sentence changes from they failed to I own this.
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Adam Grant · 2013
Give and Take
The best givers do not disappear into everyone else's needs. They build a world where generosity has memory, boundaries, and momentum.
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Jim Collins · 2001
Good to Great
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice.
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Sheryl Sandberg · 2013
Lean In
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Adam Grant · 2016
Originals
Originality begins when the default stops looking inevitable and starts looking editable.
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Kim Scott · 2017
Radical Candor
Radical Candor is what happens when you put care personally and challenge directly together.
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Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 2010
Rework
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
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Atul Gawande · 2009
The Checklist Manifesto
The checklist is not about making experts less expert. It is about making expertise reliable when the room gets loud.
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Patrick Lencioni · 2002
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
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ADHD & Focus
For the restless and the distracted. Books that meet you where you are.
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Become Hard To Manipulate
A persuasion-literacy curriculum. Read these and you'll start to see the strings: in ads, in apps, in conversations, in your own head.
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Better Conversations, Better Life
Most of your relationships are made of sentences. Six books on listening hard, speaking clearly, and turning conflict into connection.
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