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Leadership & Management

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

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01

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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22

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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