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Books like The Coaching Habit

The best books like The Coaching Habit are Radical Candor, Multipliers, and The Making of a Manager. The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier is about coaching, management, 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. Multipliers
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    Multipliers

    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.

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  3. The Making of a Manager
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    The Making of a Manager

    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.

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  1. Trillion Dollar Coach
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    Trillion Dollar Coach

    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.

    Shares coaching and management with The Coaching Habit.

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  2. Leading with Questions
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    Leading with Questions

    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.

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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. Co-Active Coaching
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    Co-Active Coaching

    Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth · Business

    Co-Active Coaching presents the model developed at the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), which has trained more professional coaches than any other organization in the world.

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Fierce Conversations
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    Fierce Conversations

    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.

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  9. Good Authority
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    Good Authority

    Jonathan Raymond · Business

    Good Authority is Jonathan Raymond's argument that the real job of a manager is not to produce results directly but to use the work as a vehicle for people's personal and professional development.

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Books like The Coaching Habit: quick answers

What are the best books like The Coaching Habit?

The best books like The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier are Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Leading with Questions by Michael J. Marquardt, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Coaching Habit, such as coaching, management, communication.

What should I read after The Coaching Habit?

A natural next read after The Coaching Habit is Radical Candor by Kim Scott. Shares management and communication with The Coaching Habit. Other strong choices are Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle.

What books are similar to The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier?

The Coaching Habit centers on coaching, management, communication. Books with a similar feel include Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Leading with Questions by Michael J. Marquardt, 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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