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Books like Co-Active Coaching
The best books like Co-Active Coaching are The Coaching Habit, Dare to Lead, and Servant Leadership. Co-Active Coaching by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth is about coaching, leadership development, communication. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Coaching Habit
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Michael Bungay Stanier · Business
The Coaching Habit is Michael Bungay Stanier's practical guide to asking better questions — specifically, seven questions that he argues should become habitual for any manager who wants to coach rather than just direct.
Shares coaching and communication with Co-Active Coaching.
Read the summary → - Dare to Lead
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Brené Brown · Business
Dare to Lead is Brené Brown's application of her research on vulnerability and courage to the specific context of leadership.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Servant Leadership
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Robert K. Greenleaf · Business
Servant Leadership is Robert Greenleaf's foundational essay collection arguing that the best leaders start not with the desire to lead but with the desire to serve — and that this reversal of priority produces qualitatively different leadership.
A kindred business read.
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- Multipliers
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Liz Wiseman · Business
Multipliers is Liz Wiseman's exploration of a striking leadership pattern: some leaders make the people around them smarter, more capable, and more engaged, while other leaders — often equally intelligent and well-intentioned — make the people around them dumber, more dependent, and less confident.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Difficult Conversations
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Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen · Business
Difficult Conversations is the product of the Harvard Negotiation Project, the same research group that produced Getting to Yes.
Shares communication and self-awareness with Co-Active Coaching.
Read the summary → - Energy Leadership
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Bruce D. Schneider · Business
Energy Leadership is Bruce Schneider's framework for understanding how leaders show up — the quality of awareness and presence they bring to interactions, decisions, and crises.
Shares coaching and self-awareness with Co-Active Coaching.
Read the summary → - Leading with Questions
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Michael J. Marquardt · Business
Leading with Questions is Michael Marquardt's argument that great leaders are not distinguished by the quality of their answers but by the quality of their questions.
Shares coaching and communication with Co-Active Coaching.
Read the summary → - Primal Leadership
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Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee · Business
Primal Leadership is the application of emotional intelligence to organizational leadership, written by Daniel Goleman with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee.
Shares coaching and self-awareness with Co-Active Coaching.
Read the summary → - Reboot
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Jerry Colonna · Business
Reboot is Jerry Colonna's examination of the connection between a leader's inner life and their organizational behavior — the argument that how you lead others is shaped by who you are, and that who you are is shaped by experiences, traumas, and stories that most people carry unexamined into leadership.
Shares coaching and self-awareness with Co-Active Coaching.
Read the summary → - Thanks for the Feedback
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Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen · Business
Thanks for the Feedback is Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen's follow-up to Difficult Conversations, this time focused on the receiving end of feedback rather than the giving end.
Shares communication and self-awareness with Co-Active Coaching.
Read the summary → - True North
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Bill George · Business
True North is Bill George's argument that the most effective leaders are those who lead from a clear sense of who they are — their values, their purpose, their motivations — rather than from a performance of what leadership is supposed to look like.
Shares leadership development and self-awareness with Co-Active Coaching.
Read the summary → - Immunity to Change
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Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey · Psychology
Immunity to Change is Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey's attempt to explain why intelligent, motivated people fail to change behavior they genuinely want to change.
Shares leadership development and self-awareness with Co-Active Coaching.
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Books like Co-Active Coaching: quick answers
What are the best books like Co-Active Coaching?
The best books like Co-Active Coaching by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth are The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Co-Active Coaching, such as coaching, leadership development, communication.
What should I read after Co-Active Coaching?
A natural next read after Co-Active Coaching is The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier. Shares coaching and communication with Co-Active Coaching. Other strong choices are Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman.
What books are similar to Co-Active Coaching by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth?
Co-Active Coaching centers on coaching, leadership development, communication. Books with a similar feel include The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, Energy Leadership by Bruce D. Schneider — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
