Books like Crucial Accountability

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler · Self-help

Crucial Conversations is a book about what to do when the stakes are high, emotions run strong, and opinions diverge.

Both dig into communication.

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Difficult Conversations

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.

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Radical Candor

Kim Scott · Business

Radical Candor is Kim Scott's framework for the central management challenge: how to tell people what they need to hear without damaging the relationship.

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The Coaching Habit

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.

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni · Business

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is Patrick Lencioni's argument that most teams fail not because of strategy, talent, or resources, but because of five specific, predictable behavioral problems that compound on each other.

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Leadership Is Language

L. David Marquet · Business

Leadership Is Language is L.

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Death by Meeting

Patrick Lencioni · Business

Death by Meeting is Patrick Lencioni's diagnosis of one of the most universal corporate dysfunctions: meetings that are simultaneously painful and pointless.

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Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin · Business

Extreme Ownership is former Navy SEAL commanders Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's argument that the single most important principle in leadership is taking total responsibility for everything that happens under your command — not just your own actions but your team's performance, your mission's failure, and the behavior of those above you when it doesn't support your mission.

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Fierce Conversations

Susan Scott · Business

Fierce Conversations is Susan Scott's argument that the quality of your relationships is determined by the quality of your conversations — and that the conversations most people avoid are precisely the ones that would most improve their relationships and results.

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Good Authority

Jonathan Raymond · Business

Good Authority is Jonathan Raymond's argument that the real job of a manager is not to produce results directly but to use the work as a vehicle for people's personal and professional development.

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback

Harvard Business Review · Business

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback is an anthology collecting some of the most cited Harvard Business Review articles on feedback, including pieces by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, and others.

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Humble Inquiry

Edgar H. Schein · Business

Humble Inquiry is Edgar Schein's argument that the most important communication skill in leadership is the ability to ask questions in a genuinely curious, non-manipulative way — and that most organizational cultures systematically undervalue this skill in favor of telling, which creates problems both for individual relationships and for organizational safety and learning.

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