10 must-read management books like Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone by Kevin M. Hoffman

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Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone

By: Kevin M. Hoffman

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Meetings don’t have to be painfully inefficient snoozefests—if you design them. Meeting Design will…

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

2. 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
  • design
  • business
  • leadership
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3. The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

By: Erin Meyer

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this ins… read more

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  • communication
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding."

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"This is the philosophy of low - context communication in a nutshell: Tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them ,then tell them what you’ve told them."

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"This is where I learned the traditional American rule for successfully transferring a powerful message to an audience: tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what y…"

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"You may find yourself reacting defensively when you hear what others have said about the culture you call your own. It isn't true: my culture is not a bit like that. At the risk of pouring oil on the…"

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

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4. The Ballad of Black Tom

By: Victor LaValle

3.85

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more

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"I wish I’d been more like my father,"

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."

-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

5. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By: Sam Kean

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

By: Jake Knapp , John Zeratsky , None

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

From three design partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems… read more

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  • productivity
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • business

7. Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights

By: Steve Portigal

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Interviewing is a foundational user research tool that people assume they already possess. Everyone… read more

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8. How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody

By: Abby Covert

4.28

Format: 364 pages,

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9. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

3.94

Format: 450 pages, ebook

A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head … read more

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10. Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain th… 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. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

By: Brian Tracy

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provi… read more

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  • productivity
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"The Key to Success is Action"

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"Do anything, but get started."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

"Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse."

-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

13. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

By: Gene Kim , George Spafford , Kevin Behr

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bi… read more

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14. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By: Amy Wallace , Ed Catmull

2.83

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"What does it mean to manage well?" From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter)… read more

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15. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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16. The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.84

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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17. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

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  • productivity
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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18. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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19. 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

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  • productivity
  • 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

Cover of Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa  Torres

20. 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
  • design
  • business
  • leadership
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21. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

By: Claire North

3.70

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more

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"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."

-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

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22. Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

By: Mike Monteiro

4.12

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is working exactly as designed. The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s… read more

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  • business
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
"We need to value the consequences of our actions more than the cleverness of our ideas."

-Mike Monteiro, Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It

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23. The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future Sixtee… read more

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24. 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
  • design
  • business
  • leadership
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25. Happy People Are Annoying

By: Josh Peck

4.06

Format: 272 pages, ebook

A wonderfully candid memoir from one of the most recognizable faces of a generation, actor, writer,… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1) by J.M. Miro

26. Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)

By: J.M. Miro

3.79

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His … read more

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"Every light creates a shadow. You can not have one without the other."

-J.M. Miro, Ordinary Monsters (The Talents Trilogy, #1)

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27. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

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"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance by Steven G. Rogelberg

28. The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance

By: Steven G. Rogelberg

3.67

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

⧫ One of the ten Leadership books to watch in 2019 —The Washington Post ⧫ One of the top business b… read more

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  • communication
  • productivity
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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29. What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

By: Stephen Wolfram

3.91

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody expected this—not even its creators: ChatGPT has burst onto the scene as an AI capable of wr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily  Chang

30. Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

By: Emily Chang

4.01

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland where millions of dollars grow on trees. It'… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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31. Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone

By: Kevin M. Hoffman

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Meetings don’t have to be painfully inefficient snoozefests—if you design them. Meeting Design will… read more

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  • management
  • leadership

18 best-selling nonfiction books like Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone by Kevin M. Hoffman

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

Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

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Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

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4.34

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