13 must-read management books like 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results by Esther Derby

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7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results

By: Esther Derby

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Change is difficult but essential--Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, a…

If you liked the management plot in 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results by Esther Derby , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

By: Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your d… read more

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  • business
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir   Eyal

2. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By: Nir Eyal

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture wide… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt

3. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

By: Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Unknown Binding

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear… read more

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  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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4. The 12 Week Year

By: Brian P. Moran , Michael Lennington

4.04

Format: 202 pages,

5 hrs and 17 mins The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to 12 weeks Most … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman, Matt Wagner, Harlan Ellison, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, P. Craig Russell, Dick Giordano, Todd Klein, Kelley Jones, George Pratt

5. The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

By: Neil Gaiman , Matt Wagner , Harlan Ellison , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , P. Craig Russell , Dick Giordano , Todd Klein , Kelley Jones , George Pratt

4.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of … read more

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"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"[Dream] I do not want a grape. [Desire] I could make you want one."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go."

-Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

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6. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Format: 916 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

7. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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8. 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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9. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.42

Format: 604 pages, Hardcover

With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more

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"Time is the cruelest force of all."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

10. Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition

By: Lyssa Adkins

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project… read more

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11. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

By: Stephen R. Covey , Ron McMillan , Kerry Patterson , Joseph Grenny , Al Switzler

3.78

Format: None pages,

Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare. When stakes are high,… read more

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12. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

By: Jeff Sutherland

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

We live in a world that is broken. For those who believe that there must be a more efficient way fo… read more

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13. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By: David Allen

4.01

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and ma… read more

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  • business
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
"My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects."

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stres…"

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignmen…"

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

14. Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

By: Edgar H. Schein

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Key to Effective Communication Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all to… read more

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15. The Secret Lives of Color

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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16. 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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  • 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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17. 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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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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18. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

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19. Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

By: Teresa Torres

4.47

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

"If you haven't had the good fortune to be coached by a strong leader or product coach, this book c… read more

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  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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20. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.99

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy The Fearless Organization: Creati… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy C. Edmondson

21. 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

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
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22. WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

By: Abby Wambach

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York C… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Note: When they say you're ridiculous, you know you're onto something."

-Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

"[...] insist upon remembering. Because we know that the lessons of yesterday's loss become the fuel for tomorrow's win."

-Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

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23. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

By: Julie Zhuo

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the ch… read more

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  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
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24. Dare to Lead

By: Brené Brown

4.18

Format: 332 pages, ebook

In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and bra… read more

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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
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  • leadership
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25. The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4)

By: Baoshu

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of… read more

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26. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results by Andrew McAfee

27. The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results

By: Andrew McAfee

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this "handbook for disruptors" (Eric Schmidt),  The Geek Way  reveals a new way to get big thing… read more

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  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson

28. Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

By: Will Larson

4.07

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

At most technology companies, you’ll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software … read more

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  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification by Gene Kim

29. Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification

By: Gene Kim

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful new book, bestselling and award-winning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steve Spear prese… read more

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  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results by Esther Derby

30. 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results

By: Esther Derby

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Change is difficult but essential--Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, a… read more

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Cover of Creating Your Dojo: Upskill Your Organization for Digital Evolution by Dion Stewart

31. Creating Your Dojo: Upskill Your Organization for Digital Evolution

By: Dion Stewart

3.96

Format: 179 pages, ebook

Transforming a company’s digital product development capabilities is a monumental task that can lea… read more

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  • management

21 Best nonfiction books like 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results by Esther Derby

Transform Your Habits

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The 12 Week Year

Brian P. Moran , Michael Lennington

4.04

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12 Best nonfiction books like Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal

Transform Your Habits

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The One Minute Manager

Spencer Johnson , Kenneth H. Blanchard

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

4.00

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