Books like First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
12 books with a reading profile close to First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham. Outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
by Simon Sinek
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, leadership
Simon Sinek argues that organizational success depends on the Golden Circle, a three-tiered conceptual framework consisting of Why, How, and What.
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, leadership
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer detail the internal mechanics of Netflix’s corporate strategy, focusing on the deliberate cultivation of talent density and the practice of radical candor.
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · practical, leadership
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin outline a leadership framework developed during their service as Navy SEAL officers in the battle of Ramadi.
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Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, leadership
Kim Scott argues that effective management requires a combination of personal care and direct confrontation.
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The Leader in You
by Dale Carnegie, Stuart R. Levine
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · practical, leadership
The Leader in You adapts Dale Carnegie’s interpersonal philosophies for the modern organizational environment, emphasizing human relations as the foundation of professional authority.
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The Culture Code
by Daniel Coyle
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · practical, leadership
Daniel Coyle identifies three core behavioral skills that drive the success of high-performing groups: building safety, sharing vulnerability, and establishing purpose.
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, leadership
John C.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
by Ben Horowitz
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, leadership
Ben Horowitz addresses the brutal realities of leading a company when failure is imminent.
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Also growth-minded and clear-cut · practical, leadership
Patrick Lencioni uses a fictional narrative about a struggling technology firm and its new CEO, Kathryn Petersen, to illustrate why groups often fail to coordinate.
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by Seth Godin
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, leadership
Seth Godin argues that the internet has dismantled traditional barriers to organization, allowing anyone to gather a group of people around a shared interest or cause.
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
by Simon Sinek
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, leadership
Simon Sinek argues that organizational success depends on creating a "Circle of Safety" where employees feel shielded from internal politics and cynicism.
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Measure What Matters
by John Doerr
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · practical, leadership
John Doerr introduces the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework, a goal-setting system he encountered at Intel under Andy Grove and later brought to Google.
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