Books like Leadership Is Language

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Turn the Ship Around!

L. David Marquet · Business

Turn the Ship Around!

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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.

Both dig into leadership.

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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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Leaders Eat Last

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.

Both dig into leadership.

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Crucial Accountability

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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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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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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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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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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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Roger Fisher and William Ury · Business

Getting to Yes emerged from the Harvard Negotiation Project in the late 1970s and laid out a method its authors called principled negotiation.

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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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