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Books like Nine Lies About Work
The best books like Nine Lies About Work are First, Break All the Rules, Multipliers, and The Making of a Manager. Nine Lies About Work by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall is about management, employee engagement, strengths. 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.
- First, Break All the Rules
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Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman · Business
First, Break All the Rules is the result of Gallup's analysis of interviews with more than 80,000 managers across a variety of industries, aimed at identifying what distinguishes the best managers from the rest.
Shares management and employee engagement with Nine Lies About Work.
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.
Shares management and leadership with Nine Lies About Work.
Read the summary → - The Making of a Manager
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Julie Zhuo · Business
The Making of a Manager is Julie Zhuo's account of what it actually means to manage people, written from her experience going from individual contributor to VP of Design at Facebook in her twenties.
Shares management and leadership with Nine Lies About Work.
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- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · Psychology
Drive is Daniel Pink's argument that the motivational model most organizations still run on — reward the behavior you want, punish the behavior you don't — is badly mismatched to the kind of work that matters most in a modern economy.
A kindred business read.
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 management and organizational culture with Nine Lies About Work.
Read the summary → - It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is a direct challenge to the mythology of startup hustle — the idea that long hours, constant urgency, and full-company stress are signs of ambition rather than poor management.
Shares management and organizational culture with Nine Lies About Work.
Read the summary → - The Culture Engine
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S. Chris Edmonds · Business
The Culture Engine is S.
Shares employee engagement and organizational culture with Nine Lies About Work.
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 employee engagement and organizational culture with Nine Lies About Work.
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 organizational culture and leadership with Nine Lies About Work.
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 organizational culture and leadership with Nine Lies About Work.
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 organizational culture and leadership with Nine Lies About Work.
Read the summary → - Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn · Business
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture introduces the Competing Values Framework, a model Cameron and Quinn developed at the University of Michigan for assessing and intentionally changing organizational culture.
Shares organizational culture and leadership with Nine Lies About Work.
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Books like Nine Lies About Work: quick answers
What are the best books like Nine Lies About Work?
The best books like Nine Lies About Work by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall are First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Nine Lies About Work, such as management, employee engagement, strengths.
What should I read after Nine Lies About Work?
A natural next read after Nine Lies About Work is First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. Shares management and employee engagement with Nine Lies About Work. Other strong choices are Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink.
What books are similar to Nine Lies About Work by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall?
Nine Lies About Work centers on management, employee engagement, strengths. Books with a similar feel include First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
