Books like Immunity to Change

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Carol S. Dweck · Psychology

Carol Dweck's central claim is simple but far-reaching: people hold one of two basic beliefs about their own abilities.

A kindred psychology read.

02

Dare to Lead

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 psychology read.

03

Leadership and Self-Deception

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.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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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.

A kindred psychology read.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey · Self-help

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A kindred psychology read.

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An Everyone Culture

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 leadership development and adult development with Immunity to Change.

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Co-Active Coaching

Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth · Business

Co-Active Coaching presents the model developed at the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), which has trained more professional coaches than any other organization in the world.

Shares leadership development and self-awareness with Immunity to Change.

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True North

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 Immunity to Change.

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Atlas of the Heart

Brené Brown · Psychology

Atlas of the Heart is Brené Brown's attempt to map eighty-seven distinct human emotions and experiences — not as a clinical taxonomy but as a practical vocabulary for people who want to communicate more precisely about what they feel.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman · Psychology

Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

Adam Grant · Psychology

Give and Take is Adam Grant's argument that the least intuitive kind of person — the giver, who helps others without expecting immediate return — actually ends up at the top of most social and professional hierarchies, not just the bottom.

Both dig into organizational behavior.

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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Daniel J. Siegel · Psychology

Mindsight is Daniel Siegel's case that humans have a distinct capacity he calls "mindsight" — the ability to sense and shape one's own mental processes and to perceive the inner lives of others.

Both dig into self-awareness.