9 Best leadership books like Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

Cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

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…

"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

If you liked the leadership plot in Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David  Brooks

1. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

Similar categories in David Brooks's How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Cover of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

2. 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

Similar categories in Charles Duhigg's Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • 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

Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

3. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Housel's Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • self help
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur C. Brooks

4. 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

Similar categories in Arthur C. Brooks's Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath

5. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

Similar categories in Charan Ranganath's Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam M. Grant

6. 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

Similar categories in Adam M. Grant's Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

7. 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 Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • 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 Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali  Abdaal

8. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

By: Ali Abdaal

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We're told that to achieve more we need to work longer, focus harder, sacrifice more. But it's a li… read more

Similar categories in Ali Abdaal's Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott H. Young

9. Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

By: Scott H. Young

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for p… read more

Similar categories in Scott H. Young's Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results by Shane Parrish

10. 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

Similar categories in Shane Parrish's Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • 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

Cover of Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by Michael Easter

11. Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

By: Michael Easter

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Reveals the biological and evolutionary foundations behind your brain’… read more

Similar categories in Michael Easter's Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Embrace short-term discomfort to find a long-term benefit."

-Michael Easter, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

Cover of The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

12. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

13. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Cover of Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours by Noah Kagan

14. Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

By: Noah Kagan

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a si… read more

Similar categories in Noah Kagan's Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert I. Sutton

15. 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

Similar categories in Robert I. Sutton's The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

16. 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

Similar categories in Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There by Tali Sharot

17. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

By: Tali Sharot

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Thinking Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit , a groundbreaking new study of how disru… read more

Similar categories in Tali Sharot's Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

18. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Holiday's Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • leadership
Cover of Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin

19. Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing

By: Laura Mae Martin

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the new way of work work for… read more

Similar categories in Laura Mae Martin's Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • audiobook
  • productivity
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions by Michael Norton

20. The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

By: Michael Norton

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth’s Grit, a … read more

Similar categories in Michael Norton's The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions book and Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook

20 best-selling audiobook books like Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

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

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

View all the books

18 must-read audiobook books like The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.