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Books like What Got You Here Won't Get You There
The best books like What Got You Here Won't Get You There are Radical Candor, Triggers, and The Effective Executive. What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith is about leadership, behavior change, career growth. 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.
Shares leadership and feedback with What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
Read the summary → - Triggers
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Marshall Goldsmith · Business
Triggers is Marshall Goldsmith's examination of why behavioral change is so persistently difficult, even for intelligent, self-aware people who genuinely want to change.
Shares leadership and behavior change with What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
Read the summary → - The Effective Executive
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Peter F. Drucker · Business
The Effective Executive is Peter Drucker's 1967 argument that effectiveness — getting the right things done — is a discipline that can be learned, and that it is the most important capability a knowledge worker can develop.
Both dig into leadership.
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- 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.
Both dig into leadership.
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.
Shares leadership and career growth with What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
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 feedback with What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
Read the summary → - On Becoming a Leader
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Warren Bennis · Business
On Becoming a Leader is Warren Bennis's argument that leadership is not a set of techniques to be mastered but a continuous process of self-discovery — and that the most important leadership development work is inner rather than outer.
Shares leadership and career growth with What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
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 leadership and behavior change with What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
Read the summary → - The Manager's Path
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Camille Fournier · Business
The Manager's Path is Camille Fournier's guide to the complete arc of engineering leadership, from tech lead to CTO.
Shares leadership and career growth with What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
Read the summary → - The New One Minute Manager
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Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson · Business
The New One Minute Manager is a 2015 update to Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson's 1982 classic, rewritten to account for flatter organizations, collaborative work environments, and the shift from managers as controllers to managers as enablers.
Shares leadership and feedback with What Got You Here Won't Get You There.
Read the summary → - Accelerate
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Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim · Business
Accelerate is the research-backed account of what actually makes software delivery teams fast without sacrificing stability.
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.
Both dig into leadership.
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Books like What Got You Here Won't Get You There: quick answers
What are the best books like What Got You Here Won't Get You There?
The best books like What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith are Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with What Got You Here Won't Get You There, such as leadership, behavior change, career growth.
What should I read after What Got You Here Won't Get You There?
A natural next read after What Got You Here Won't Get You There is Radical Candor by Kim Scott. Shares leadership and feedback with What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Other strong choices are Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier.
What books are similar to What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith?
What Got You Here Won't Get You There centers on leadership, behavior change, career growth. Books with a similar feel include Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier, The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Giving Feedback by Harvard Business Review — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
