22 Best nonfiction books like Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus by Joseph McCormack

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Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

By: Joseph McCormack

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Teaches managers and leaders to cut through the static and hone their focusing skills   In the curr…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus by Joseph McCormack , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chines… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"Never venture, never win!"

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Danger has a bracing effect."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The wise warrior avoids the battle."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy"

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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2. About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior

By: Ward Just , David H. Hackworth , Julie Sherman

4.36

Format: 875 pages, Hardcover

Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this na… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of Emotional Intelligence: Resilience by Daniel Goleman, Harvard Business Review, None, Shawn Achor, Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld

3. Emotional Intelligence: Resilience

By: Daniel Goleman , Harvard Business Review , None , Shawn Achor , Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld

3.75

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

How do some people bounce back with vigor from daily setbacks, professional crises, or even intense… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin

4. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

By: David Fromkin

4.21

Format: 635 pages, Paperback

The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Reginald Wingate… wrote that “Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Clayton and his colleagues believed French colonial administration to be incapable of allowing a country to retain its own character. What the French termed their “civilizing mission"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"[T]he sheer magnitude of Britain’s commitment and loss at Gallipoli made it seem vital years later that she should play a major role in the postwar Middle East to give some sort of meaning to so grea…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

"Fear of Russian expansionism was at the heart of the Porte’s policy. The Turkish ambassador told Deedes that if the Allies won the war, they would cause or allow the Ottoman Empire to be partitioned,…"

-David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

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5. Rashomon and Other Stories

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Takashi Kojima

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories o… read more

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6. Bells of Nagasaki

By: Takashi Nagai

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Among the wounded on the day they dropped the bomb on Nagasaki was a young doctor who, though sick … read more

Similar categories in Takashi Nagai's Bells of Nagasaki book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • nonfiction
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7. The Complete Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech

4.23

Format: 1344 pages, Paperback

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more

Similar categories in Michel de Montaigne's The Complete Essays book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • nonfiction
"The thing I fear most is fear."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"We should tend our freedom wisely."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."

-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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8. Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

By: Martin Lindstrom

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today's message-clutte… read more

Similar categories in Martin Lindstrom's Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • nonfiction
  • business
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9. The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

By: Gary Keller , Jay Papasan

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The One Thingexplains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the s… read more

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

10. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

By: Steven Pressfield

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more

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11. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

By: Steven Pressfield , Robert McKee

4.08

Format: None pages,

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12. Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women

By: W. Brad Johnson , David Smith

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Increasingly, new employees and junior members of any profession are encouraged--sometimes strident… read more

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13. The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know

By: Katty Kay , Claire Shipman

3.96

Format: 236 pages, ebook

Following the success of Lean Inand Why Women Should Rule the World, the authors of the bestselling… read more

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14. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn

4.27

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more

Similar categories in Meghan O'Gieblyn's God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • nonfiction
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"

-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

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15. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Il 12 marzo 2034 il commodoro della Marina militare degli Stati Uniti – Sarah Hunt – si trova sul p… read more

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16. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

Similar categories in Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • nonfiction
  • business
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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17. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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18. Veda

By: Young-ha Kim

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Profesör Choi, bir yapay zekâ geliştirme kampüsünde robotlar ve hümanoidler üzerine çalışmaktadır. … read more

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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

Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • 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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20. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

By: Kevin Simler

3.98

Format: 408 pages, ebook

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • business
  • self help
"In Debt, the anthropologist David Graeber tells the story of Tei Reinga, a Maori villager and “notorious glutton"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-s…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is o…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

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21. Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

By: Jim Vandehei

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communicat… read more

Similar categories in Jim Vandehei's Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Brevity is confidence. Length is fear."

-Jim Vandehei, Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

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22. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

By: William H. McRaven

4.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of  Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more

Similar categories in William H. McRaven's The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

23. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

By: Sebastian Junger

4.02

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at pos… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary."

-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

"Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it."

-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

"An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men"."

-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

"Disasters, he proposed, create a "community of sufferers" that allow individuals to experience an immensely reassuring connection to others"

-Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Cover of Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman

24. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

By: Daniel Kahneman

3.66

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • business
  • self help
Cover of Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day by Amishi P. Jha

25. Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day

By: Amishi P. Jha

4.05

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Research shows we are missing 50 percent of our lives. Why? Because we aren’t paying attention. … read more

Similar categories in Amishi P. Jha's Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • leadership
  • self help
Cover of Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday

26. Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

By: Ryan Holiday

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • leadership
  • self help
"When good men come to bad ends,"

-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

"No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair"

-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

"You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute."

-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

"It is a striking contrast, an emperor and a slave sharing and loving the same philosophy, the latter figure greatly influencing the former, but it is not a contradiction—nor would it have seemed odd …"

-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

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27. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

By: Donald J. Robertson

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roma… read more

Similar categories in Donald J. Robertson's How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • leadership
  • self help
Cover of The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

28. The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and… read more

Similar categories in Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

  • nonfiction
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29. Bütün İyiler Biraz Küskündür

By: Nilay Örnek

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Çoğumuzun kalbi kırık ve bu bizi yavaşlatıyor... Ayrıldık, ayrıştık, yıprandık, işsiz, mesleksiz, h… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Borsada Oynanmaz by Murat Sağman

30. Borsada Oynanmaz

By: Murat Sağman

3.74

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Borsa deyince aklınıza ilk ne gelir? Borsada yatırım mı yaparsınız, yoksa borsa sizin için bir oyun… read more

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"Warren Buffet’ın ismi “70\30"

-Murat Sağman, Borsada Oynanmaz

"Bir hocamın dediği gibi, “Piyasalarda para kaybetmeyi bir eğitim olarak görmek gerekir."

-Murat Sağman, Borsada Oynanmaz

"Varlıklarınız içinde altın da olabilir, döviz de. Önemli olan bu dağılımı doğru yapmaktır."

-Murat Sağman, Borsada Oynanmaz

"Gelirinizi yatırıma aktarırsanız temel giderlerinizi karşılayamazsınız, bu arada zarar da edebilirsiniz."

-Murat Sağman, Borsada Oynanmaz

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31. Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

By: Joseph McCormack

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Teaches managers and leaders to cut through the static and hone their focusing skills   In the curr… read more

Similar categories in Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus book and Joseph McCormack's Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus

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

12 must-read self help books like Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus by Joseph McCormack

Transform Your Habits

The Art of War

Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Emotional Intelligence: Resilience

Daniel Goleman , Harvard Business Review , None , Shawn Achor , Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Gary Keller , Jay Papasan

3.16

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

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9 Top fiction books like 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman

Transform Your Habits

Once an Eagle

Anton Myrer

4.39

Transform Your Habits

2017 War With Russia: An urgent warning from senior military command

Richard Shirreff

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

Transform Your Habits

2034: A Novel of the Next World War

Elliot Ackerman

3.80

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