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Books like The Empathetic Workplace
The best books like The Empathetic Workplace are Dare to Lead, Radical Candor, and Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High. The Empathetic Workplace by Katharine Manning is about empathy, workplace trauma, leadership. 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.
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.
Read the summary → - 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.
A kindred business read.
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- The Culture Code
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Daniel Coyle · Business
The Culture Code is Daniel Coyle's investigation into what separates exceptional team cultures from average ones.
Shares leadership and psychological safety with The Empathetic Workplace.
Read the summary → - Difficult Conversations
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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.
Both dig into leadership.
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 psychological safety with The Empathetic Workplace.
Read the summary → - Leadership Is Language
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L. David Marquet · Business
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Shares leadership and psychological safety with The Empathetic Workplace.
Read the summary → - How to Win Friends and Influence People
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie · Self-help
How to Win Friends and Influence People is Dale Carnegie's 1936 guide to dealing with people effectively.
Shares empathy and leadership with The Empathetic Workplace.
Read the summary → - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin · Biography
Doris Kearns Goodwin's account of Abraham Lincoln's formation of his cabinet — which included his three main rivals for the 1860 Republican nomination: William Seward, Salmon Chase, and Edward Bates — is one of the most widely discussed leadership books of the twenty-first century and one of the most readable biographies of the Lincoln era.
Shares empathy and leadership with The Empathetic Workplace.
Read the summary → - Accelerate
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Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim · Business
Accelerate is the research-backed account of what actually makes software delivery teams fast without sacrificing stability.
Both dig into leadership.
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 leadership.
Read the summary → - An Everyone Culture
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Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey · Business
An Everyone Culture introduces what Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey call the Deliberately Developmental Organization — a company designed around the idea that the work of personal growth and the work of business performance are not separate activities but the same thing.
Both dig into psychological safety.
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Books like The Empathetic Workplace: quick answers
What are the best books like The Empathetic Workplace?
The best books like The Empathetic Workplace by Katharine Manning are Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Empathetic Workplace, such as empathy, workplace trauma, leadership.
What should I read after The Empathetic Workplace?
A natural next read after The Empathetic Workplace is Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices 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, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle.
What books are similar to The Empathetic Workplace by Katharine Manning?
The Empathetic Workplace centers on empathy, workplace trauma, leadership. Books with a similar feel include Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
