12 Top management books like Influence Without Authority by Allan R. Cohen, David L. Bradford

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Influence Without Authority

By: Allan R. Cohen , None , David L. Bradford

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

In organizations today, getting work done requires political and collaborative skills. That's why t…

If you liked the management plot in Influence Without Authority by Allan R. Cohen, None, David L. Bradford , here is a list of 12 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

Similar categories in Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • communication
  • business
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • self help
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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

Similar categories in Daniel H. Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • management
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"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. The Art of Choosing

By: Sheena Iyengar

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go? Whether mundane or life-alt… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"We make choices and are in turn made by them."

-Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing

"One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home,…"

-Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing

"Like the swimming rats in Richter’s experiment, we can survive for only so long without solid ground beneath our feet; if the choices aren’t real, sooner or later we will go under. It’s important, th…"

-Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing

"The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we’re likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we’re forced to make …"

-Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing

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4. Emotional Intelligence: Mindfulness

By: Ellen J. Langer , Daniel Goleman , Harvard Business Review , Susan David , None

3.79

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The benefits of mindfulness include better performance, heightened creativity, deeper self-awarenes… read more

Similar categories in Ellen J. Langer's Emotional Intelligence: Mindfulness book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • self help
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Boredom can be just another construct of the mind....There is always something new to notice."

-Ellen J. Langer, Emotional Intelligence: Mindfulness

"as a leader, you can walk around like you're God, and give everyone the quiver, but, then, you're not going to learn anything"

-Ellen J. Langer, Emotional Intelligence: Mindfulness

"The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!"

-Ellen J. Langer, Emotional Intelligence: Mindfulness

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5. 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

Similar categories in Richard P. Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • self help
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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6. Two Necromancers, an Army of Golems, and a Demon Lord (The Unconventional Heroes, #2)

By: L.G. Estrella

4.16

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

Two necromancers, an army of golems, and a demon lord – it sounds like a recipe for trouble, and fo… read more

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7. Grit

By: Angela Duckworth

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth sho… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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8. Stumbling on Happiness

By: None

4.02

Format: None pages,

* Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in … read more

Similar categories in None's Stumbling on Happiness book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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9. High Output Management

By: Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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10. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

By: Michael D. Watkins

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since its original release, The First 90 Dayshas become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible… read more

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  • self help
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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11. Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Elf (The Unconventional Heroes #1)

By: L.G. Estrella

4.50

Format: 168 pages,

Two necromancers, a bureaucrat, and an elf - it sounds like the start of a bad joke, only the joke … read more

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12. Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts

By: Ryan Holiday

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals to creatives of all stripes--autho… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Holiday's Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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13. Influence Without Authority

By: Allan R. Cohen , None , David L. Bradford

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

In organizations today, getting work done requires political and collaborative skills. That's why t… read more

Similar categories in Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • communication
  • business
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • self help

14. 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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15. Win Forever

By: Pete Carroll , Kristoffer Garin , Yogi Roth

4.14

Format: 152 pages,

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16. The Magic of Thinking Big

By: David J. Schwartz

4.20

Format: None pages,

The Magic of Thinking Biggives you useful methods, not empty promises. Dr. Schwartz presents a care… read more

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17. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

By: Robert B. Cialdini

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how … read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • communication
  • business
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • self help
"Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed."

-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

"The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good."

-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

"A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do."

-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

"The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so ou…"

-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

18. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

By: L. David Marquet

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than … read more

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19. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

By: Larry Bossidy , Ram Charan , None

3.96

Format: 236 pages,

"Executionmay very well be the best business book of the year,and one of the most useful to have co… read more

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20. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

By: Eliyahu M. Goldratt , Jeff Cox

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goalis the gripping novel which is transforming managem… read more

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21. Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

By: Bill Perkins

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich Imagine if by the time you died, you did… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Your biggest fear ought to be wasting your life and time, not "Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80?"

-Bill Perkins, Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

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22. 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 Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • self help
  • psychology
  • 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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23. Clean Architecture

By: Robert C. Martin

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Building upon the success of best-sellers The Clean Coder and Clean Code, legendary software crafts… read more

Similar categories in Robert C. Martin's Clean Architecture book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • nonfiction
"The only way to go fast, is to go well."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"All race conditions, deadlock conditions, and concurrent update problems are due to mutable variables."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it."

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

"Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure"

-Robert C. Martin, Clean Architecture

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24. 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

Similar categories in Amy C. Edmondson's Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • management
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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25. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • management
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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26. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By: Robert Waldinger

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more

Similar categories in Robert Waldinger's The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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27. Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)

By: Jennifer Aaker

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Anyone--even you!--can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Aaker's Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.) book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • communication
  • business
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • self help
"Having a sense of humor — both the ability to generate humor and to appreciate it — has repeatedly been found to correlate with measures of intelligence."

-Jennifer Aaker, Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)

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28. Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers

By: Chip Heath

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A clear, practical guide to turning cold, clinical data into a story - from bestselling business au… read more

Similar categories in Chip Heath's Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • communication
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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29. 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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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues by David L. Bradford

30. Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues

By: David L. Bradford

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A transformative guide to building more fulfilling relationships with colleagues, friends, partners… read more

Similar categories in David L. Bradford's Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues book and Allan R. Cohen's Influence Without Authority

  • communication
  • business
  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • self help
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31. Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work

By: Jennifer Petriglieri

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible. The majority of couples… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

23 best-selling nonfiction books like Influence Without Authority by Allan R. Cohen, David L. Bradford

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

The Art of Choosing

Sheena Iyengar

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Emotional Intelligence: Mindfulness

Ellen J. Langer , Daniel Goleman , Harvard Business Review , Susan David , None

3.79

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19 must-read audiobook books like Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work by Jennifer Petriglieri

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Choosing

Sheena Iyengar

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

None , Steve Peters

3.99

Transform Your Habits

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Jennifer Senior

3.89

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