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Books like The Connected Leader
The best books like The Connected Leader are Leaders Eat Last, Start with Why, and Dare to Lead. The Connected Leader by Emmanuel Gobillot is about leadership, community and belonging, influence. 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.
- Leaders Eat Last
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Simon Sinek · Business
Leaders Eat Last is Simon Sinek's argument that the best organizations run on a feeling he calls the Circle of Safety — an environment where people trust that the people above them in the hierarchy have their interests at heart.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Connected Leader.
Read the summary → - Start with Why
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Simon Sinek · Business
Start with Why is Simon Sinek's argument that the most influential leaders and organizations in history didn't succeed because they made better products or ran smarter campaigns.
Shares leadership and trust with The Connected Leader.
Read the summary → - 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 The Connected Leader.
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- Servant Leadership
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Robert K. Greenleaf · Business
Servant Leadership is Robert Greenleaf's foundational essay collection arguing that the best leaders start not with the desire to lead but with the desire to serve — and that this reversal of priority produces qualitatively different leadership.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Humble Leadership
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Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein · Business
Humble Leadership is Edgar Schein and Peter Schein's argument that the command-and-control model of management is failing precisely when organizations need it most.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Connected Leader.
Read the summary → - The Trust Factor
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Paul J. Zak · Business
The Trust Factor is Paul Zak's attempt to build an evidence-based case for why trust in organizations is not a soft management concept but a measurable biological phenomenon with hard consequences for performance.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Connected Leader.
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 The Connected Leader.
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 The Connected Leader.
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 organizational culture with The Connected Leader.
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 The Connected Leader.
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 organizational culture with The Connected Leader.
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 organizational culture with The Connected Leader.
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Books like The Connected Leader: quick answers
What are the best books like The Connected Leader?
The best books like The Connected Leader by Emmanuel Gobillot are Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Humble Leadership by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Connected Leader, such as leadership, community and belonging, influence.
What should I read after The Connected Leader?
A natural next read after The Connected Leader is Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek. Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Connected Leader. Other strong choices are Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf.
What books are similar to The Connected Leader by Emmanuel Gobillot?
The Connected Leader centers on leadership, community and belonging, influence. Books with a similar feel include Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Humble Leadership by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein, The Trust Factor by Paul J. Zak — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
