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Books like Humble Inquiry
The best books like Humble Inquiry are Difficult Conversations, The Coaching Habit, and Fierce Conversations. Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein is about communication, leadership, psychological safety. 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.
Shares communication and leadership with Humble Inquiry.
Read the summary → - 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 communication and leadership with Humble Inquiry.
Read the summary → - Fierce Conversations
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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.
Shares communication and leadership with Humble Inquiry.
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- 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.
Shares leadership and relationships with Humble Inquiry.
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 Humble Inquiry.
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.
Shares leadership and relationships with Humble Inquiry.
Read the summary → - Inclusive Conversations
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Mary-Frances Winters · Business
Inclusive Conversations is Mary-Frances Winters's guide to having substantive, productive conversations about race, identity, and equity in organizational settings.
Shares communication and psychological safety with Humble Inquiry.
Read the summary → - Leadership Is Language
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L. David Marquet · Business
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Shares communication and leadership with Humble Inquiry.
Read the summary → - The Culture Code
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Daniel Coyle · Business
The Culture Code is Daniel Coyle's investigation into what separates exceptional team cultures from average ones.
Shares leadership and psychological safety with Humble Inquiry.
Read the summary → - Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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Frank Slootman · Business
Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Humble Inquiry.
Read the summary → - An Everyone Culture
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Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey · Business
An Everyone Culture introduces what Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey call the Deliberately Developmental Organization — a company designed around the idea that the work of personal growth and the work of business performance are not separate activities but the same thing.
Shares psychological safety and organizational culture with Humble Inquiry.
Read the summary → - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business
Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Humble Inquiry.
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Books like Humble Inquiry: quick answers
What are the best books like Humble Inquiry?
The best books like Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein are Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott, Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback by Harvard Business Review, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Humble Inquiry, such as communication, leadership, psychological safety.
What should I read after Humble Inquiry?
A natural next read after Humble Inquiry is Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. Shares communication and leadership with Humble Inquiry. Other strong choices are The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott, Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute.
What books are similar to Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein?
Humble Inquiry centers on communication, leadership, psychological safety. Books with a similar feel include Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott, Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback by Harvard Business Review, Humble Leadership by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
