8 best-selling productivity books like Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman

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Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day

By: Daniel Goleman

3.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his groundbreaking #1 bestseller Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we t…

"With self-awareness, a basic definition tells us, “You know what you are feeling and why—and how it helps or hurts what you are trying to do."

-Daniel Goleman, Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day

If you liked the productivity plot in Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life (Little Book. Big Idea.)

By: June Eding , Debbie Ellis

3.16

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

How to Love the Difficult People in Your LifeMost of us know someone who, for whatever reason, alwa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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2. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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3. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • self help
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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4. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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5. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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6. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Daniel Goleman's Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day

  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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7. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

Similar categories in Amy C. Edmondson's Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well book and Daniel Goleman's Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day

  • productivity
  • self help
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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8. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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9. The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We're Not Hungry and How to Stop

By: Judson Brewer

3.90

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

A program proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies from New York Times bestselling … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
Cover of Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris J. Anderson

10. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

By: Chris J. Anderson

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
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11. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI book and Daniel Goleman's Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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12. Learned Excellence: Mental Disciplines for Leading and Winning from the World's Top Performers

By: Eric Potterat

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Learn how to perform at your very best, from the psychologist who has advised elite military operat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You by Michael Gervais

13. The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You

By: Michael Gervais

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what m… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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14. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman

15. Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day

By: Daniel Goleman

3.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his groundbreaking #1 bestseller Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we t… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Goleman's Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day book and Daniel Goleman's Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day

  • productivity
  • self help
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"With self-awareness, a basic definition tells us, “You know what you are feeling and why—and how it helps or hurts what you are trying to do."

-Daniel Goleman, Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day

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16. Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down

By: Corey Keyes

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Emory University sociologist who coined the term languishing—low-grade mental weariness that af… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health (The Plant Paradox, 7) by Steven R. Gundry

17. Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health (The Plant Paradox, 7)

By: Steven R. Gundry

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking addition to his New York Times bestselling Plant Paradox series, Steven R.Gu… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin

18. Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing

By: Laura Mae Martin

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the new way of work work for… read more

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  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
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  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything by James R. Doty

19. Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

By: James R. Doty

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing you… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of red helicopter―a parable for our times: lead change with kindness, plus a little math by James  Rhee

20. red helicopter―a parable for our times: lead change with kindness, plus a little math

By: James Rhee

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Embrace your agency, lead change, and fly free—in the business of life and… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life by Jeff Wetzler

21. Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life

By: Jeff Wetzler

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Global expert on adult development and learning Jeff Wetzler offers a hands-on, surprisingly effect… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help

21 Best nonfiction books like Optimal: How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman

Transform Your Habits

How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life (Little Book. Big Idea.)

June Eding , Debbie Ellis

3.16

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

Ronald M. Razmi

4.28

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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick

4.13

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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Kai-Fu Lee

3.86

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Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

Mo Gawdat

3.82

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