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Books like Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

The best books like Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility are No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Dare to Lead, and Radical Candor. Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord is about organizational culture, leadership, talent 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. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
    No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

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    No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

    Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer · Business

    No Rules Rules is Reed Hastings's account of the management philosophy that has governed Netflix since the company pivoted from DVDs to streaming and built one of the most watched entertainment platforms in the world.

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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.

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  3. Radical Candor
    Radical Candor

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    Radical Candor

    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.

    Both dig into leadership.

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  1. First, Break All the Rules
    First, Break All the Rules

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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.

    A kindred business read.

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  2. Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
    Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

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    Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

    Laszlo Bock · Business

    Work Rules!

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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?

    Shares leadership and corporate culture with Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 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.

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Books like Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility: quick answers

What are the best books like Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility?

The best books like Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord are No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, such as organizational culture, leadership, talent management.

What should I read after Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility?

A natural next read after Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility is No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer. Shares organizational culture and leadership with Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility. Other strong choices are Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

What books are similar to Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord?

Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility centers on organizational culture, leadership, talent management. Books with a similar feel include No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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