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Books like The Culture Engine
The best books like The Culture Engine are Dare to Lead, Good to Great, and Radical Candor. The Culture Engine by S. Chris Edmonds is about organizational culture, leadership, values. 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.
- 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 organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine.
Read the summary → - Good to Great
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Jim Collins · Business
Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?
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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- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni · Business
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is Patrick Lencioni's argument that most teams fail not because of strategy, talent, or resources, but because of five specific, predictable behavioral problems that compound on each other.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Nine Lies About Work
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Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall · Business
Nine Lies About Work challenges nine assumptions that dominate how organizations are designed and managed — assumptions Buckingham and Goodall argue are not just wrong but actively harmful.
Shares organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine.
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 organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine.
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 organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine.
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 organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine.
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 organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine.
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 organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine.
Read the summary → - Extreme Ownership
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Jocko Willink and Leif Babin · Business
Extreme Ownership is former Navy SEAL commanders Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's argument that the single most important principle in leadership is taking total responsibility for everything that happens under your command — not just your own actions but your team's performance, your mission's failure, and the behavior of those above you when it doesn't support your mission.
Shares leadership and team performance with The Culture Engine.
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 organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine.
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Books like The Culture Engine: quick answers
What are the best books like The Culture Engine?
The best books like The Culture Engine by S. Chris Edmonds are Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Nine Lies About Work by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Culture Engine, such as organizational culture, leadership, values.
What should I read after The Culture Engine?
A natural next read after The Culture Engine is Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. Shares organizational culture and leadership with The Culture Engine. Other strong choices are Good to Great by Jim Collins, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
What books are similar to The Culture Engine by S. Chris Edmonds?
The Culture Engine centers on organizational culture, leadership, values. Books with a similar feel include Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, Nine Lies About Work by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, The Trust Factor by Paul J. Zak — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
