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Books like HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback

The best books like HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback are Radical Candor, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, and Difficult Conversations. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback by Harvard Business Review is about feedback, leadership, communication. 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. 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.

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  2. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
    Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

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    Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

    Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler · Self-help

    Crucial Conversations is a book about what to do when the stakes are high, emotions run strong, and opinions diverge.

    Both dig into communication.

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  3. Difficult Conversations
    Difficult Conversations

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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.

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  1. The Coaching Habit
    The Coaching Habit

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    The Coaching Habit

    Michael Bungay Stanier · Business

    The Coaching Habit is Michael Bungay Stanier's practical guide to asking better questions — specifically, seven questions that he argues should become habitual for any manager who wants to coach rather than just direct.

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  2. 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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  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. Crucial Accountability
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    Crucial Accountability

    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.

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  7. 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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  8. Death by Meeting
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    Death by Meeting

    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.

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  9. 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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Books like HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback: quick answers

What are the best books like HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback?

The best books like HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback by Harvard Business Review are Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback, such as feedback, leadership, communication.

What should I read after HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback?

A natural next read after HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback is Radical Candor by Kim Scott. Shares feedback and leadership with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback. Other strong choices are Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier.

What books are similar to HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback by Harvard Business Review?

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback centers on feedback, leadership, communication. Books with a similar feel include Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein, 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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