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Books like The New Leadership Literacies
The best books like The New Leadership Literacies are Good to Great, An Elegant Puzzle, and Start with Why. The New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen is about future of leadership, foresight, organizational agility. 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?
A kindred business read.
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.
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.
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.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Competing in the Age of AI
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Marco Iansiti & Karim Lakhani · Business
Competing in the Age of AI is Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani's argument that artificial intelligence is not just another technology to be adopted, but a fundamental redesign of how firms operate — and that companies built from the start with AI at their core will eventually displace firms that try to bolt AI onto traditional operating models.
Both dig into digital transformation.
Read the summary → - Exponential Organizations
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Salim Ismail · Business
Exponential Organizations is Salim Ismail's framework for understanding why some companies — Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, Google — grew ten times faster than their peers and why traditional organizations struggle to match that pace.
Both dig into digital transformation.
Read the summary → - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.
Both dig into resilience.
Read the summary → - The Power of Positive Leadership
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The Power of Positive Leadership
Jon Gordon · Business
The Power of Positive Leadership is Jon Gordon's argument that positivity is not a soft trait or a personality quirk — it's a competitive advantage that great leaders deliberately cultivate.
Both dig into resilience.
Read the summary → - A Guide to the Good Life
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William Irvine · Philosophy
William Irvine's book is a modern case for reviving Stoic philosophy as a practical guide to living well.
Both dig into resilience.
Read the summary → - Angela's Ashes
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Frank McCourt · Memoir
Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's memoir of a catastrophically impoverished Irish Catholic childhood, first in Brooklyn and then in Limerick, during the 1930s and 1940s.
Both dig into resilience.
Read the summary → - Becoming
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Michelle Obama · Memoir
Becoming is Michelle Obama's account of how a girl from a modest house on Chicago's South Side became one of the most recognized people in the world — and what that journey cost and revealed.
Both dig into resilience.
Read the summary → - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo · History
Behind the Beautiful Forevers is Katherine Boo's account of three years spent in Annawadi, a Mumbai slum built on reclaimed land next to the international airport.
Both dig into resilience.
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Books like The New Leadership Literacies: quick answers
What are the best books like The New Leadership Literacies?
The best books like The New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen are Good to Great by Jim Collins, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Competing in the Age of AI by Marco Iansiti & Karim Lakhani, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The New Leadership Literacies, such as future of leadership, foresight, organizational agility.
What should I read after The New Leadership Literacies?
A natural next read after The New Leadership Literacies is Good to Great by Jim Collins. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek.
What books are similar to The New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen?
The New Leadership Literacies centers on future of leadership, foresight, organizational agility. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Start with Why by Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Competing in the Age of AI by Marco Iansiti & Karim Lakhani, Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
