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Books like Organizational Culture and Leadership

The best books like Organizational Culture and Leadership are Good to Great, Dare to Lead, and Team of Teams. Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar H. Schein is about organizational culture, leadership, change management. 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.

  1. Good to Great
    Good to Great

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    Good to Great

    Jim Collins · Business

    Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?

    Both dig into leadership.

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  2. Dare to Lead
    Dare to Lead

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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.

    Shares organizational culture and leadership with Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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  3. Team of Teams
    Team of Teams

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    Team of Teams

    Stanley McChrystal · Business

    Team of Teams is General Stanley McChrystal's account of how he restructured the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq to fight an enemy — Al-Qaeda in Iraq — that was organized in ways the conventional military hierarchy was too slow to counter.

    Both dig into leadership.

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  1. The Hard Thing About Hard Things
    The Hard Thing About Hard Things

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    The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    Ben Horowitz · Business

    The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.

    Both dig into leadership.

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

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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.

    Shares organizational culture and leadership with Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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  3. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
    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 Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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  4. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
    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 Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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  5. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
    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 Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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  6. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
    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 organizational culture and leadership with Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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  7. Humble Inquiry
    Humble Inquiry

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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.

    Shares organizational culture and leadership with Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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  8. Humble Leadership
    Humble Leadership

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    Humble Leadership

    Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein · Business

    Humble Leadership is Edgar Schein and Peter Schein's argument that the command-and-control model of management is failing precisely when organizations need it most.

    Shares organizational culture and leadership with Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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  9. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
    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 organizational culture and leadership with Organizational Culture and Leadership.

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Books like Organizational Culture and Leadership: quick answers

What are the best books like Organizational Culture and Leadership?

The best books like Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar H. Schein are Good to Great by Jim Collins, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, 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 Organizational Culture and Leadership, such as organizational culture, leadership, change management.

What should I read after Organizational Culture and Leadership?

A natural next read after Organizational Culture and Leadership is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.

What books are similar to Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar H. Schein?

Organizational Culture and Leadership centers on organizational culture, leadership, change management. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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