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Books like Humble Leadership
The best books like Humble Leadership are Servant Leadership, Leadership and Self-Deception, and Dare to Lead. Humble Leadership by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein is about leadership, organizational culture, trust. 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.
- 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.
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.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Humble Leadership.
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.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Humble Leadership.
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- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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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.
Shares leadership and trust with Humble Leadership.
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 organizational culture with Humble Leadership.
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 leadership and organizational culture with Humble Leadership.
Read the summary → - Leaders Eat Last
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Simon Sinek · Business
Leaders Eat Last is Simon Sinek's argument that the best organizations run on a feeling he calls the Circle of Safety — an environment where people trust that the people above them in the hierarchy have their interests at heart.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Humble Leadership.
Read the summary → - The Connected Leader
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Emmanuel Gobillot · Business
The Connected Leader is Emmanuel Gobillot's argument that traditional command-and-control leadership is giving way to a model built on genuine connection, community, and shared meaning.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Humble Leadership.
Read the summary → - The Trust Factor
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Paul J. Zak · Business
The Trust Factor is Paul Zak's attempt to build an evidence-based case for why trust in organizations is not a soft management concept but a measurable biological phenomenon with hard consequences for performance.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Humble Leadership.
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 Leadership.
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 Leadership.
Read the summary → - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with Humble Leadership.
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Books like Humble Leadership: quick answers
What are the best books like Humble Leadership?
The best books like Humble Leadership by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein are Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Humble Leadership, such as leadership, organizational culture, trust.
What should I read after Humble Leadership?
A natural next read after Humble Leadership is Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
What books are similar to Humble Leadership by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein?
Humble Leadership centers on leadership, organizational culture, trust. Books with a similar feel include Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
