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Books like Superbosses
The best books like Superbosses are Multipliers, Trillion Dollar Coach, and Radical Candor. Superbosses by Sydney Finkelstein is about leadership, talent development, mentorship. 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.
- 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 leadership and talent development with Superbosses.
Read the summary → - Trillion Dollar Coach
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Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle · Business
Trillion Dollar Coach is a tribute to Bill Campbell, the former football coach and Columbia University athletic director who became the most influential executive coach in Silicon Valley — coaching Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, Jeff Bezos, and the co-founders of Google, among others.
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.
Both dig into leadership.
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- 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 leadership and organizational culture with Superbosses.
Read the summary → - High Output Management
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.
Both dig into leadership.
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 leadership and innovation with Superbosses.
Read the summary → - 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.
Shares leadership and innovation with Superbosses.
Read the summary → - The Ride of a Lifetime
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Robert Iger · Business
The Ride of a Lifetime is Robert Iger's account of his fifteen years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, from his appointment in 2005 to his planned retirement in 2020.
Shares leadership and innovation with Superbosses.
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 leadership and organizational culture with Superbosses.
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 leadership and organizational culture with Superbosses.
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 leadership and organizational culture with Superbosses.
Read the summary → - Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones · Business
Empowered is Marty Cagan and Chris Jones's guide to what separates product organizations that consistently build products people love from those that operate as feature factories.
Shares leadership and innovation with Superbosses.
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Books like Superbosses: quick answers
What are the best books like Superbosses?
The best books like Superbosses by Sydney Finkelstein are Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Superbosses, such as leadership, talent development, mentorship.
What should I read after Superbosses?
A natural next read after Superbosses is Multipliers by Liz Wiseman. Shares leadership and talent development with Superbosses. Other strong choices are Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown.
What books are similar to Superbosses by Sydney Finkelstein?
Superbosses centers on leadership, talent development, mentorship. Books with a similar feel include Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
