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Books like Triggers
The best books like Triggers are What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Atomic Habits, and The Power of Habit. Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith is about behavior change, self-awareness, leadership. 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.
- What Got You Here Won't Get You There
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith · Business
What Got You Here Won't Get You There is Marshall Goldsmith's counter-intuitive argument about career plateaus: the behaviors that drive early success in organizations actively work against you once you reach a senior level.
Shares behavior change and leadership with Triggers.
Read the summary → - Atomic Habits
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James Clear · Self-help
Atomic Habits is James Clear's framework for how very small changes — habits so minor they seem to make no difference on any given day — compound into remarkable results over months and years.
Both dig into behavior change.
Read the summary → - The Power of Habit
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Charles Duhigg · Psychology
The Power of Habit is Charles Duhigg's investigation into why habits exist and how they can be changed.
Both dig into behavior change.
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- Emotional Intelligence
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Daniel Goleman · Psychology
Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, published in 1995, made a widely influential argument: that the cluster of abilities involved in managing emotions — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skill — predicts life outcomes at least as well as IQ, and possibly better in many domains.
Both dig into self-awareness.
Read the summary → - Difficult Conversations
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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 self-awareness and leadership with Triggers.
Read the summary → - Leadership and Self-Deception
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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 self-awareness and leadership with Triggers.
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.
Shares self-awareness and leadership with Triggers.
Read the summary → - Reboot
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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 self-awareness and leadership with Triggers.
Read the summary → - Switch
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Chip Heath and Dan Heath · Business
Switch is Chip Heath and Dan Heath's framework for understanding and overcoming the central paradox of change: people want things to be different, and yet change is consistently hard.
Shares behavior change and leadership with Triggers.
Read the summary → - The Leadership Gap
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Lolly Daskal · Business
The Leadership Gap argues that the same qualities that make leaders effective also carry within them a shadow that can undermine performance.
Shares self-awareness and leadership with Triggers.
Read the summary → - Solving the Procrastination Puzzle
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Solving the Procrastination Puzzle
Timothy A. Pychyl · Psychology
Solving the Procrastination Puzzle is Timothy Pychyl's short, research-grounded guide to understanding and overcoming procrastination.
Shares behavior change and self-regulation with Triggers.
Read the summary → - The Achievement Habit
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Bernard Roth · Self-help
The Achievement Habit is Bernard Roth's attempt to bring the principles of Stanford's d.school — the design school he co-founded — into the domain of personal effectiveness.
Shares behavior change and self-awareness with Triggers.
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Books like Triggers: quick answers
What are the best books like Triggers?
The best books like Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith are What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith, Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Triggers, such as behavior change, self-awareness, leadership.
What should I read after Triggers?
A natural next read after Triggers is What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith. Shares behavior change and leadership with Triggers. Other strong choices are Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman.
What books are similar to Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith?
Triggers centers on behavior change, self-awareness, leadership. Books with a similar feel include What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith, Atomic Habits by James Clear, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
