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Books like The Mind of the Leader
The best books like The Mind of the Leader are Dare to Lead, Primal Leadership, and Servant Leadership. The Mind of the Leader by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter is about leadership, mindfulness, selflessness. 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.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
Read the summary → - Primal Leadership
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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.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Servant Leadership
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Robert K. Greenleaf · Business
Servant Leadership is Robert Greenleaf's foundational essay collection arguing that the best leaders start not with the desire to lead but with the desire to serve — and that this reversal of priority produces qualitatively different leadership.
A kindred business read.
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- Leaders Eat Last
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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.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
Read the summary → - The Leadership Challenge
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James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner · Business
The Leadership Challenge is James Kouzes and Barry Posner's evidence-based framework for what leaders actually do when they're at their best, drawn from decades of survey research and thousands of case studies.
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.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
Read the summary → - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business
Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
Read the summary → - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
Read the summary → - Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn · Business
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture introduces the Competing Values Framework, a model Cameron and Quinn developed at the University of Michigan for assessing and intentionally changing organizational culture.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
Read the summary → - HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback
Harvard Business Review · Business
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback is an anthology collecting some of the most cited Harvard Business Review articles on feedback, including pieces by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen, and others.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
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 organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
Read the summary → - Humble Leadership
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Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein · Business
Humble Leadership is Edgar Schein and Peter Schein's argument that the command-and-control model of management is failing precisely when organizations need it most.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader.
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Books like The Mind of the Leader: quick answers
What are the best books like The Mind of the Leader?
The best books like The Mind of the Leader by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter are Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Mind of the Leader, such as leadership, mindfulness, selflessness.
What should I read after The Mind of the Leader?
A natural next read after The Mind of the Leader is Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Mind of the Leader. Other strong choices are Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek.
What books are similar to The Mind of the Leader by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter?
The Mind of the Leader centers on leadership, mindfulness, selflessness. Books with a similar feel include Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
