Books like Now, Discover Your Strengths

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First, Break All the Rules

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.

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The First 90 Days

Michael D. Watkins · Business

The First 90 Days is Michael Watkins's guide to leadership transitions — the critical period when a new leader either establishes the credibility, relationships, and early wins that set them up for long-term success, or falls into traps that undermine them for months or years.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey · Self-help

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A kindred business read.

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Multipliers

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.

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Nine Lies About Work

Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall · Business

Nine Lies About Work challenges nine assumptions that dominate how organizations are designed and managed — assumptions Buckingham and Goodall argue are not just wrong but actively harmful.

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The Making of a Manager

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.

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Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

Frank Slootman · Business

Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.

Both dig into management.

08

An Elegant Puzzle

Will Larson · Business

An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.

Both dig into career growth.

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Authentic Leadership

Bill George · Business

Authentic Leadership arrived in 2003 in the aftermath of Enron, WorldCom, and the first wave of corporate governance scandals.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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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.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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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.

Both dig into self-awareness.

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Energy Leadership

Bruce D. Schneider · Business

Energy Leadership is Bruce Schneider's framework for understanding how leaders show up — the quality of awareness and presence they bring to interactions, decisions, and crises.

Both dig into self-awareness.