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Books like Leading with Questions
The best books like Leading with Questions are The Coaching Habit, Radical Candor, and Multipliers. Leading with Questions by Michael J. Marquardt is about leadership, questioning, coaching. 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.
- 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 leadership and coaching with Leading with Questions.
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.
Shares leadership and communication with Leading with Questions.
Read the summary → - Multipliers
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Liz Wiseman · Business
Multipliers is Liz Wiseman's exploration of a striking leadership pattern: some leaders make the people around them smarter, more capable, and more engaged, while other leaders — often equally intelligent and well-intentioned — make the people around them dumber, more dependent, and less confident.
Both dig into leadership.
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- 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.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Co-Active Coaching
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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 coaching and communication with Leading with Questions.
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.
Shares leadership and communication with Leading with Questions.
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.
Shares leadership and communication with Leading with Questions.
Read the summary → - 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 leadership and communication with Leading with Questions.
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 leadership and communication with Leading with Questions.
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 leadership and communication with Leading with Questions.
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 communication with Leading with Questions.
Read the summary → - Leadership Is Language
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L. David Marquet · Business
Leadership Is Language is L.
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Books like Leading with Questions: quick answers
What are the best books like Leading with Questions?
The best books like Leading with Questions by Michael J. Marquardt are The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Co-Active Coaching by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Leading with Questions, such as leadership, questioning, coaching.
What should I read after Leading with Questions?
A natural next read after Leading with Questions is The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier. Shares leadership and coaching with Leading with Questions. Other strong choices are Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown.
What books are similar to Leading with Questions by Michael J. Marquardt?
Leading with Questions centers on leadership, questioning, coaching. Books with a similar feel include The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Co-Active Coaching by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth, Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
