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Books like The Heart of Change
The best books like The Heart of Change are Good to Great, The First 90 Days, and Start with Why. The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen is about change management, leadership, organizational behavior. 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.
- 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 → - The First 90 Days
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Michael D. Watkins · Business
The First 90 Days is Michael Watkins's guide to leadership transitions — the critical period when a new leader either establishes the credibility, relationships, and early wins that set them up for long-term success, or falls into traps that undermine them for months or years.
A kindred business read.
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 motivation with The Heart of Change.
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- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · Psychology
Drive is Daniel Pink's argument that the motivational model most organizations still run on — reward the behavior you want, punish the behavior you don't — is badly mismatched to the kind of work that matters most in a modern economy.
Both dig into motivation.
Read the summary → - Management of Organizational Behavior
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Management of Organizational Behavior
Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard · Business
Management of Organizational Behavior is the textbook that introduced Situational Leadership Theory, the model that argues there is no single best leadership style — only styles that are more or less appropriate to the development level of the person being led.
Shares leadership and organizational behavior with The Heart of Change.
Read the summary → - Switch
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Chip Heath and Dan Heath · Business
Switch is Chip Heath and Dan Heath's framework for understanding and overcoming the central paradox of change: people want things to be different, and yet change is consistently hard.
Shares change management and leadership with The Heart of Change.
Read the summary → - Leading Change
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John P. Kotter · Business
Leading Change is John Kotter's synthesis of his research on organizational transformation, organized around an eight-stage process for successfully executing major change.
Shares change management and leadership with The Heart of Change.
Read the summary → - Loonshots
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Safi Bahcall · Business
Loonshots is physicist and biotech CEO Safi Bahcall's argument that the most transformative innovations — the kind he calls loonshots, after the eccentric northern bird — are fragile ideas that look foolish or impossible until they suddenly aren't, and that organizations systematically kill them long before they get a chance to prove themselves.
Shares leadership and organizational behavior with The Heart of Change.
Read the summary → - Only the Paranoid Survive
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
Only the Paranoid Survive is Andrew Grove's account of how he understood and navigated the most dangerous moments in a company's life — what he calls strategic inflection points.
Shares change management and leadership with The Heart of Change.
Read the summary → - Organizational Culture and Leadership
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Organizational Culture and Leadership
Edgar H. Schein · Business
Organizational Culture and Leadership is Edgar Schein's foundational text on how culture forms, how it functions, and what leaders can actually do about it.
Shares change management and leadership with The Heart of Change.
Read the summary → - The Culture Map
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Erin Meyer · Business
The Culture Map is Erin Meyer's framework for understanding the eight dimensions along which national cultures differ most consequentially for business leadership.
Shares leadership and organizational behavior with The Heart of Change.
Read the summary → - 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.
Shares leadership and organizational behavior with The Heart of Change.
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Books like The Heart of Change: quick answers
What are the best books like The Heart of Change?
The best books like The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen are Good to Great by Jim Collins, The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink, Management of Organizational Behavior by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Heart of Change, such as change management, leadership, organizational behavior.
What should I read after The Heart of Change?
A natural next read after The Heart of Change is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink.
What books are similar to The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen?
The Heart of Change centers on change management, leadership, organizational behavior. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink, Management of Organizational Behavior by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard, Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
