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Books like Fierce Conversations
The best books like Fierce Conversations are Difficult Conversations, Radical Candor, and Nonviolent Communication. Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott is about communication, leadership, relationships. 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.
- 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.
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Read the summary → - Radical Candor
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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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Read the summary → - Nonviolent Communication
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Marshall B. Rosenberg · Self-help
Nonviolent Communication is Marshall Rosenberg's framework for communicating in ways that preserve connection and address needs rather than triggering defensiveness.
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- 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 relationships with Fierce Conversations.
Read the summary → - Humble Inquiry
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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.
Shares communication and leadership with Fierce Conversations.
Read the summary → - Leadership and Self-Deception
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The Arbinger Institute · Business
Leadership and Self-Deception is The Arbinger Institute's business fable about a leadership problem that most leaders don't recognize in themselves: the tendency to see other people as objects rather than as people.
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Read the summary → - Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
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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.
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Read the summary → - The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman and Nan Silver · Psychology
John Gottman is a research psychologist who spent decades studying couples in his "Love Lab" at the University of Washington, filming interactions and measuring physiological responses, and developing a predictive model of relationship outcomes.
Shares communication and relationships with Fierce Conversations.
Read the summary → - Crucial Accountability
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Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler · Business
Crucial Accountability is the sequel to Crucial Conversations, narrowing its focus from high-stakes dialogue to one specific problem: what to do when someone fails to meet an expectation.
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Read the summary → - Death by Meeting
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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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Read the summary → - HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
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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.
Shares communication and leadership with Fierce Conversations.
Read the summary → - Humble Leadership
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Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein · Business
Humble Leadership is Edgar Schein and Peter Schein's argument that the command-and-control model of management is failing precisely when organizations need it most.
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Books like Fierce Conversations: quick answers
What are the best books like Fierce Conversations?
The best books like Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott are Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Fierce Conversations, such as communication, leadership, relationships.
What should I read after Fierce Conversations?
A natural next read after Fierce Conversations is Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. Shares communication and leadership with Fierce Conversations. Other strong choices are Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen.
What books are similar to Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott?
Fierce Conversations centers on communication, leadership, relationships. Books with a similar feel include Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein, Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
