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Books like Results Without Authority
The best books like Results Without Authority are The Effective Executive, Multipliers, and Radical Candor. Results Without Authority by Tom Kendrick is about project management, influence, leadership. 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 Effective Executive
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Peter F. Drucker · Business
The Effective Executive is Peter Drucker's 1967 argument that effectiveness — getting the right things done — is a discipline that can be learned, and that it is the most important capability a knowledge worker can develop.
Both dig into leadership.
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.
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 Results Without Authority.
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- 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.
Both dig into leadership.
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 Results Without Authority.
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 Results Without Authority.
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 Results Without Authority.
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 Results Without Authority.
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 Results Without Authority.
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 Results Without Authority.
Read the summary → - Leadership Is Language
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L. David Marquet · Business
Leadership Is Language is L.
Shares leadership and communication with Results Without Authority.
Read the summary → - Leading with Questions
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Michael J. Marquardt · Business
Leading with Questions is Michael Marquardt's argument that great leaders are not distinguished by the quality of their answers but by the quality of their questions.
Shares leadership and communication with Results Without Authority.
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Books like Results Without Authority: quick answers
What are the best books like Results Without Authority?
The best books like Results Without Authority by Tom Kendrick are The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Results Without Authority, such as project management, influence, leadership.
What should I read after Results Without Authority?
A natural next read after Results Without Authority is The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo.
What books are similar to Results Without Authority by Tom Kendrick?
Results Without Authority centers on project management, influence, leadership. Books with a similar feel include The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
