Business · Similar reads
Books like The Leadership Gap
The best books like The Leadership Gap are Dare to Lead, Primal Leadership, and Leaders Eat Last. The Leadership Gap by Lolly Daskal is about leadership, self-awareness, personal growth. 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
01
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 → - Primal Leadership
02
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee · Business
Primal Leadership is the application of emotional intelligence to organizational leadership, written by Daniel Goleman with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee.
Shares leadership and self-awareness with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary → - Leaders Eat Last
03
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.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary →
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
04
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey · Self-help
Stephen R.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Reboot
05
Jerry Colonna · Business
Reboot is Jerry Colonna's examination of the connection between a leader's inner life and their organizational behavior — the argument that how you lead others is shaped by who you are, and that who you are is shaped by experiences, traumas, and stories that most people carry unexamined into leadership.
Shares leadership and self-awareness with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary → - Difficult Conversations
06
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.
Shares leadership and self-awareness with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary → - Fierce Conversations
07
Susan Scott · Business
Fierce Conversations is Susan Scott's argument that the quality of your relationships is determined by the quality of your conversations — and that the conversations most people avoid are precisely the ones that would most improve their relationships and results.
Shares leadership and authenticity with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary → - Leadership and Self-Deception
08
The Arbinger Institute · Business
Leadership and Self-Deception is The Arbinger Institute's business fable about a leadership problem that most leaders don't recognize in themselves: the tendency to see other people as objects rather than as people.
Shares leadership and self-awareness with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary → - Legacy
09
James Kerr · Business
Legacy is James Kerr's examination of how the New Zealand All Blacks became the most successful sports team in history and what that success reveals about leadership, culture, and purpose.
Shares leadership and identity with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary → - On Becoming a Leader
10
Warren Bennis · Business
On Becoming a Leader is Warren Bennis's argument that leadership is not a set of techniques to be mastered but a continuous process of self-discovery — and that the most important leadership development work is inner rather than outer.
Shares leadership and authenticity with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary → - Triggers
11
Marshall Goldsmith · Business
Triggers is Marshall Goldsmith's examination of why behavioral change is so persistently difficult, even for intelligent, self-aware people who genuinely want to change.
Shares leadership and self-awareness with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary → - Long Walk to Freedom
12
Nelson Mandela · Memoir
Nelson Mandela's autobiography traces his life from a rural Xhosa childhood in the Transkei to his release from prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years of incarceration, and ends with his election as South Africa's first democratically chosen president in 1994.
Shares leadership and identity with The Leadership Gap.
Read the summary →
Books like The Leadership Gap: quick answers
What are the best books like The Leadership Gap?
The best books like The Leadership Gap by Lolly Daskal are Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, Reboot by Jerry Colonna, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Leadership Gap, such as leadership, self-awareness, personal growth.
What should I read after The Leadership Gap?
A natural next read after The Leadership Gap is Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.
What books are similar to The Leadership Gap by Lolly Daskal?
The Leadership Gap centers on leadership, self-awareness, personal growth. Books with a similar feel include Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, Reboot by Jerry Colonna, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
