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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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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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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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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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Adam M. Grant · 2021
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
The mark of intelligence is not defending a belief forever. It is knowing when the belief has stopped earning its place.
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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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Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler · 2002
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Truth travels farther when safety is kept in the conversation.
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Rachel Hollis · 2019
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
A goal gets stronger when it stops being hidden as an apology.
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Kenneth H. Blanchard · 1982
The One Minute Manager
People work better when expectations are clear and feedback arrives while the moment is still alive.
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Thomas Erikson · 2014
Surrounded by Idiots
Adapt your message before frustration turns into contempt.
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The Arbinger Institute · 2000
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The box opens when the other person becomes fully human again.
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Peter F. Drucker · 1999
Managing Oneself
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Lois P. Frankel · 2004
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
Authority grows when competence stops hiding.
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John C. Maxwell · 1998
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
Leadership is measured by the capacity it creates in others.
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Robert Greene · 2006
The 33 Strategies of War
The best strategy often prevents the fight it understands.
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Stephen R. Covey · 2004
The 8th Habit
Voice appears where strength, care, need, and conscience overlap.
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Priya Parker · 2018
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
A gathering improves when purpose is allowed to make decisions.
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Rosamund Stone Zander · 2000
The Art of Possibility
A new frame can make room for better music.
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Jon Gordon · 2007
The Energy Bus
Your team needs a destination, fuel, and a driver who protects the route.
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Ben Horowitz · 2014
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
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Chip Heath · 2017
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
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