17 must-read management books like Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson

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Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company

By: Whitney Johnson

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Creating a culture of learning and growth. Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their pote…

If you liked the management plot in Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson , here is a list of 17 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
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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2. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.95

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motiv… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
"Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

"Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon."

-Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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3. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

By: Marcus Buckingham , Curt Coffman

3.94

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in … read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
"People leave managers, not companies"

-Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

"People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!"

-Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

"...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning."

-Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

"Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics."

-Marcus Buckingham, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

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4. A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)

By: Alan Bradley

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously cle… read more

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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. The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

By: Daniel Coyle

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

An essential book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides readers with a … read more

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7. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

By: Dan Harris

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to… read more

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8. Leading Change

By: John P. Kotter

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

John Kotter's now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become… read more

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9. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

By: Greg McKeown , Liz Wiseman

4.50

Format: None pages,

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10. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: The Four Disciplines at the Heart of Making Any Organization World Class

By: Patrick Lencioni

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencion… read more

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11. 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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  • 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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12. 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

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  • 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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13. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

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  • nonfiction
"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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14. 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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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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15. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

By: Michael Easter

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and re… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. 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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  • 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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17. Measure What Matters

By: John Doerr

3.99

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a f… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
"For anyone striving for high performance in the workplace, goals are very necessary things."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"Acute focus, open sharing, exacting measurement, a license to shoot for the moon—these are the hallmarks of modern goal science."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk…"

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

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18. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

By: Shane Parrish

4.21

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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19. The 6 Types of Working Genius

By: Patrick Lencioni

4.15

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that w… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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20. 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

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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21. 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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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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22. The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

By: Dorie Clark

3.71

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Your personal goals need a long-term strategy. It's no secret th… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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23. Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

By: Dan Heath

4.15

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. … read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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24. Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

By: Patty McCord

4.08

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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25. 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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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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26. Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

By: Marcus Buckingham

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

We're in the middle of an epidemic of stress and anxiety. A global pandemic has wreaked havoc on ou… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier

27. The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever

By: Michael Bungay Stanier

4.14

Format: 224 pages, paperback

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Coaching Habit comes an authoritative guide to gettin… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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28. The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

By: Jonah Berger

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of New York Times bestsellers Contagious and Invisible Influence comes a revolution… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Letting potential hires choose which dimension is more important makes them feel like they have more of an active role in the process—and hopefully satisfies their need to negotiate. By letting candi…"

-Jonah Berger, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

"Try to convince people to do something, and they spend a lot of time counterarguing. Thinking about all the various reasons why it’s a bad idea or why something else would be better. Why they don’t w…"

-Jonah Berger, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

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29. Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way

By: Rasmus Hougaard

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A global pandemic, Depression-level unemployment, civil and political unrest. From New York to Barc… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team by Scott Jeffrey Miller

30. Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team

By: Scott Jeffrey Miller

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essenti… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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31. Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company

By: Whitney Johnson

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Creating a culture of learning and growth. Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their pote… read more

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  • business
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  • leadership

24 Best nonfiction books like Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson

Transform Your Habits

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

Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

3.95

Transform Your Habits

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Marcus Buckingham , Curt Coffman

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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17 must-read nonfiction books like Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way by Rasmus Hougaard

Transform Your Habits

Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work

Marshall Goldsmith , Marilee G. Adams

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values

Fred Kofman

2.57

Transform Your Habits

Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be

Marshall Goldsmith

4.11

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