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Books like The Leadership Pipeline
The best books like The Leadership Pipeline are High Output Management, The Making of a Manager, and Multipliers. The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel is about leadership development, succession planning, management. 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.
Both dig into management.
Read the summary → - Multipliers
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Liz Wiseman · Business
Multipliers is Liz Wiseman's exploration of a striking leadership pattern: some leaders make the people around them smarter, more capable, and more engaged, while other leaders — often equally intelligent and well-intentioned — make the people around them dumber, more dependent, and less confident.
Both dig into management.
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- 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.
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 management.
Read the summary → - My Years with General Motors
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Alfred P. Sloan · Business
Alfred Sloan's account of his four decades building General Motors is one of the most influential management books ever written, though it reads less like a book and more like a carefully constructed argument.
Shares management and organizational design with The Leadership Pipeline.
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 → - An Elegant Puzzle
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Will Larson · Business
An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.
Both dig into organizational design.
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 leadership development.
Read the summary → - Brave New Work
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Aaron Dignan · Business
Brave New Work is Aaron Dignan's diagnosis of why most organizations are dysfunctional and a practical guide to building something better.
Both dig into organizational design.
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 leadership development.
Read the summary → - Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones · Business
Empowered is Marty Cagan and Chris Jones's guide to what separates product organizations that consistently build products people love from those that operate as feature factories.
Both dig into organizational design.
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Books like The Leadership Pipeline: quick answers
What are the best books like The Leadership Pipeline?
The best books like The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Leadership Pipeline, such as leadership development, succession planning, management.
What should I read after The Leadership Pipeline?
A natural next read after The Leadership Pipeline is High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. Both dig into management. Other strong choices are The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.
What books are similar to The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel?
The Leadership Pipeline centers on leadership development, succession planning, management. Books with a similar feel include High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, Multipliers by Liz Wiseman, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
