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Books like The Effective Manager
The best books like The Effective Manager are High Output Management, The Making of a Manager, and The Manager's Path. The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman is about management, one-on-ones, feedback. 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.
- 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 management.
Read the summary → - The Making of a Manager
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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.
Shares management and feedback with The Effective Manager.
Read the summary → - The Manager's Path
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Camille Fournier · Business
The Manager's Path is Camille Fournier's guide to the complete arc of engineering leadership, from tech lead to CTO.
A kindred business read.
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- 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.
Shares management and feedback with The Effective Manager.
Read the summary → - Managing for Results
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Peter F. Drucker · Business
Managing for Results was Peter Drucker's first explicitly strategic book, published in 1964 and still in print.
Shares management and performance with The Effective Manager.
Read the summary → - The Coaching Habit
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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.
Shares management and coaching with The Effective Manager.
Read the summary → - The New One Minute Manager
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Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson · Business
The New One Minute Manager is a 2015 update to Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson's 1982 classic, rewritten to account for flatter organizations, collaborative work environments, and the shift from managers as controllers to managers as enablers.
Shares management and feedback with The Effective Manager.
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.
Shares management and coaching with The Effective Manager.
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.
Both dig into management.
Read the summary → - Co-Active Coaching
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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.
Both dig into coaching.
Read the summary → - Energy Leadership
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Bruce D. Schneider · Business
Energy Leadership is Bruce Schneider's framework for understanding how leaders show up — the quality of awareness and presence they bring to interactions, decisions, and crises.
Both dig into coaching.
Read the summary → - First, Break All the Rules
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Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman · Business
First, Break All the Rules is the result of Gallup's analysis of interviews with more than 80,000 managers across a variety of industries, aimed at identifying what distinguishes the best managers from the rest.
Both dig into management.
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Books like The Effective Manager: quick answers
What are the best books like The Effective Manager?
The best books like The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Managing for Results by Peter F. Drucker, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Effective Manager, such as management, one-on-ones, feedback.
What should I read after The Effective Manager?
A natural next read after The Effective Manager is High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. Both dig into management. Other strong choices are The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, Radical Candor by Kim Scott.
What books are similar to The Effective Manager by Mark Horstman?
The Effective Manager centers on management, one-on-ones, feedback. Books with a similar feel include High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Managing for Results by Peter F. Drucker, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
