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HourLife Collection · 14 books · 80 insights

Leadership & Management

Books about leading teams, building organizations, and managing with clarity.

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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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