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Books like The New One Minute Manager
The best books like The New One Minute Manager are Radical Candor, The Coaching Habit, and The Making of a Manager. The New One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson is about management, feedback, goal-setting. 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.
- 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.
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Read the summary → - The Coaching Habit
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Michael Bungay Stanier · Business
The Coaching Habit is Michael Bungay Stanier's practical guide to asking better questions — specifically, seven questions that he argues should become habitual for any manager who wants to coach rather than just direct.
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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.
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- 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.
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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.
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Read the summary → - Free to Focus
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Michael Hyatt · Business
Free to Focus is Michael Hyatt's productivity framework for high-achieving professionals who feel perpetually busy but not meaningfully productive.
Shares goal-setting and leadership with The New One Minute Manager.
Read the summary → - Good Authority
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Jonathan Raymond · Business
Good Authority is Jonathan Raymond's argument that the real job of a manager is not to produce results directly but to use the work as a vehicle for people's personal and professional development.
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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.
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Read the summary → - It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is a direct challenge to the mythology of startup hustle — the idea that long hours, constant urgency, and full-company stress are signs of ambition rather than poor management.
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Read the summary → - Leading
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Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz · Business
Leading is Sir Alex Ferguson's account of what he learned managing Manchester United for twenty-seven years, written with Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz.
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Read the summary → - Management
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Peter F. Drucker · Business
Management is Peter Drucker's most comprehensive statement on what managers do, why organizations exist, and what separates effective management from the appearance of it.
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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.
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Books like The New One Minute Manager: quick answers
What are the best books like The New One Minute Manager?
The best books like The New One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson are Radical Candor by Kim Scott, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The New One Minute Manager, such as management, feedback, goal-setting.
What should I read after The New One Minute Manager?
A natural next read after The New One Minute Manager is Radical Candor by Kim Scott. Shares management and feedback with The New One Minute Manager. Other strong choices are The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove.
What books are similar to The New One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson?
The New One Minute Manager centers on management, feedback, goal-setting. Books with a similar feel include Radical Candor by Kim Scott, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
