11 best-selling productivity books like It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried

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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

By: Jason Fried

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the pr…

If you liked the productivity plot in It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The One Minute Manager

By: Spencer Johnson , Kenneth H. Blanchard

3.95

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nati… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • business
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
"ضع الأهداف، امدح، انتقد السلوكيات، شجّع الناس، قل الحق، اضحك، اعمل، استمتع"

-Spencer Johnson, The One Minute Manager

"الناس تحتاج أن ترتبط بمن يهتمون بهم، ليشعروا بأنهم مقبولون وذوو قيمة لمجرد أنهم بشر (..) أيضاً أن الناس يحتاجون إلى معين ليجدوا من يهتم بهم، عندما يجانبهم الصواب ص 91"

-Spencer Johnson, The One Minute Manager

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2. Remote: Office Not Required

By: Jason Fried , David Heinemeier Hansson

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Audio

The "work from home" phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselli… read more

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  • productivity
  • business
  • leadership
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • technology
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3. Anything You Want

By: Derek Sivers

4.11

Format: 256 pages,

The creator of CDBaby.com shares what he has learned over his ten years of starting and growing CDB… read more

Similar categories in Derek Sivers's Anything You Want book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • productivity
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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4. Key Person of Influence (Revised Edition): The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry

By: Daniel Priestley

4.40

Format: 436 pages,

FULLY REVISED EDITION with over 10,000 words of new content. Every industry revolves around Key Peo… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Priestley's Key Person of Influence (Revised Edition): The Five-Step Method to become one of the most highly valued and highly paid people in your industry book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • self help
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership

5. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

By: Kim Malone Scott

4.00

Format: None pages,

From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … read more

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6. Managing Oneself

By: Peter F. Drucker

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to t… read more

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7. Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love

By: Richard Sheridan

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The moment you walk into Menlo Innovations, you can sense the atmosphere full of energy, playfulnes… read more

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8. 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

Similar categories in Morgan Housel's Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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9. Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

By: Ajay Agrawal

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Predict… read more

Similar categories in Ajay Agrawal's Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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10. Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want (Dale Carnegie Books)

By: Joe Hart

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Take command of your future with this groundbreaking, Wall Street Journal bestseller, from the expe… read more

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  • personal development
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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11. 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 Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • 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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12. A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

By: Cal Newport

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller From New York Times bestselling author Cal N… read more

Similar categories in Cal Newport's A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • business
  • personal development
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
"Why bother hiring a hotshot if the bulk of their time is spent doing administrative work?"

-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

"A better strategy for shifting other’s expectations about your work is to consistently deliver what you promise instead of consistently explaining how you’re working."

-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

"… a better objective for support units would be the following: to effectively fulfill their administrative duties with as small an impact as possible on the specialists’ main work obligations. If tak…"

-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

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13. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

By: Ali Abdaal

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more

Similar categories in Ali Abdaal's Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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14. Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters

By: Ryan Singer

4.27

Format: 133 pages, ebook

This is an online web book about how Basecamp does their work. "This book is a guide to how we … read more

Similar categories in Ryan Singer's Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • productivity
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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15. Hell Yeah or No

By: Derek Sivers

4.26

Format: 122 pages, ebook

A collection of thoughts around re-defining yourself, changing focus, and saying yes to less read more

Similar categories in Derek Sivers's Hell Yeah or No book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"People often ask me what they can do to be more successful. I say disconnect. Even if just for a few hours. Unplug. Turn off your phone and Wi-Fi. Focus. Write. Practice. Create. That’s what’s rare a…"

-Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No

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16. Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

By: Matthew Dicks

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story — and wh… read more

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  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"I’ve always said that a good storytelling show feels like a cross between therapy, rehab and hanging out after dinner with friends"

-Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

"If I can recommend storytelling to you for any reason at all, it would be that storytelling helps you realize that the biggest, scariest, most painful or regretful things in your head get small and s…"

-Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

"I also believe that great storytellers know this: The first idea is rarely the best idea. It may be the most convenient idea. The easiest to remember. The one you personally like the most. Bu rarely …"

-Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

"I also believe that great storytellers know this: The first idea is rarely the best idea. It may be the most convenient idea. The easiest to remember. The one you personally like the most. But rarely…"

-Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

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17. Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

By: Paul Jarvis

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What if the real key to a more fulfilling career was not to scale up but to work for yourself and b… read more

Similar categories in Paul Jarvis's Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • business
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design by Kent Beck

18. Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

By: Kent Beck

3.95

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Messy code is a nuisance. "Tidying" code, to make it more readable, requires breaking it up into ma… read more

Similar categories in Kent Beck's Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried

19. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

By: Jason Fried

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the pr… read more

Similar categories in Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • business
  • personal development
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Day Trading Attention: How to Actually Build Brand and Sales in the New Social Media World by Gary Vaynerchuk

20. Day Trading Attention: How to Actually Build Brand and Sales in the New Social Media World

By: Gary Vaynerchuk

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his seventh business book, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor Gary Vaynerchuk offers… read more

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  • audiobook
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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21. Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life

By: Matthew Dicks

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

REALIZE YOUR CREATIVE DREAMS — STARTING TODAY Are you good at dreaming about what you’re going t… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Dicks's Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life book and Jason Fried's It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"Your job as a creator - a maker of things - is to make your thing, but then put that thing on a proverbial shelf in your brain. Not on some shelf in a dusty pantry at the back of your brain but on di…"

-Matthew Dicks, Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life

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The One Minute Manager

Spencer Johnson , Kenneth H. Blanchard

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

Cal Newport

3.89

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Remote: Office Not Required

Jason Fried , David Heinemeier Hansson

3.26

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Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen , David Duncan , Taddy Hall , Karen Dillon

3.70

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3.98

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