Creativity, Inc.
Pixar's co-founder on building a culture where creativity thrives, and the hidden forces that block it.
“I want to grow in my career”
Lead and grow at work
From leading a team to doing your best work, these books help you build influence, take ownership and grow professionally.
- 59 books that help
Start with these
The three books we'd hand you first.
Deep Work
Cal Newport
In a world of constant pings, the ability to focus deeply on hard work is rare and valuable. Here is how to…
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The classic guide to getting along with people, still useful nearly a century later.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Seven principles for leading yourself first, then working well with others. One of the most influential…
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Getting to Yes
Separate people from the problem and focus on interests, not positions. The classic of principled negotiation.
High Output Management
Intel's legendary CEO explains management as a craft: a manager's output is the output of their team.
The Effective Executive
The classic by the father of modern management: effectiveness can be learned, and it starts with knowing where your…
Crucial Conversations
How to talk about hard things without blowing up or shutting down.
Dare to Lead
Courageous leadership means rumbling with vulnerability, living your values and having tough conversations.
Decisive
A four-step process, WRAP, to make better decisions and avoid common traps.
Drive
Carrots and sticks don't motivate people for creative work. Autonomy, mastery and purpose do.
Ego Is the Enemy
The biggest threat to your success may be your own ego. Humility for ambitious people.
Emotional Intelligence
Understanding emotions, yours and others', is a skill that shapes your life. The book that popularized emotional…
Extreme Ownership
Own everything in your world, and you'll find the power to change it. Leadership lessons from combat.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Most 'strategies' are just goals and fluff. A strategy expert explains what real strategy looks like.
Leadership and Self-Deception
Most conflicts are fuelled by self-deception: seeing others as objects. A business parable about 'getting out of the…
Never Split the Difference
Negotiation lessons from an FBI hostage negotiator that work for salaries, purchases and family talks.
Originals
An organizational psychologist explains how people champion new ideas and fight conformity.
Peak
Experts are made through a specific kind of practice. The researcher behind deliberate practice explains how it works.
Radical Candor
Care personally and challenge directly. A practical guide to honest feedback and humane management.
Range
Early specialization isn't the only path. Why breadth, experimentation and late starts often lead to success.
Start With Why
People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. How purpose inspires loyalty.
Switch
Direct the rider, motivate the elephant, shape the path: a simple framework for change.
Thanks for the Feedback
Most advice teaches how to give feedback. This book teaches how to receive it, even when it's unfair or badly delivered.
The Art of Possibility
A therapist and a conductor offer twelve practices for seeing possibility instead of limits.
The Coaching Habit
Seven essential questions that help managers coach in ten minutes or less, by saying less and asking more.
The Culture Code
Great groups build safety, share vulnerability and establish purpose. How strong team culture really works.
The Defining Decade
A clinical psychologist argues that your twenties are a crucial time for work, love and identity.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
A business fable that explains the five problems that hold teams back, and how to fix them.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Honest advice on the hardest parts of running a company: layoffs, crises and leading when there are no easy answers.
The Leadership Challenge
Decades of research on what leaders do at their best, distilled into five practices anyone can learn.
The ONE Thing
Find the one task that makes everything else easier or unnecessary, and do it first.
Traction
The Entrepreneurial Operating System: six components to run a small business with clarity and accountability.
Turn the Ship Around!
A submarine captain stopped giving orders and turned his crew from followers into leaders.
Ultralearning
Aggressive, self-directed learning projects can help you master hard skills fast. Nine principles show how.
Built to Last
What made some companies endure for decades: core values, big goals and a culture that preserves the core while…
Crucial Accountability
How to hold people accountable for broken promises without damaging the relationship.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
A short, practical guide to the four skills of emotional intelligence, with strategies for each.
Fierce Conversations
The conversation is the relationship. How to have honest, engaged conversations that create real change.
Good to Great
What turned good companies into great ones? A research team's influential, and debated, findings.
Hidden Potential
Potential isn't about where you start but how far you travel. How character skills and good systems help people grow.
Leaders Eat Last
Great leaders make people feel safe, and teams thrive because of it.
Mastery
The path from apprentice to master, told through the lives of historical figures. A long, inspiring study of skill and…
Measure What Matters
The goal-setting system behind Google's growth: Objectives and Key Results, explained by the investor who brought it…
Multipliers
Some leaders drain intelligence from their teams; others multiply it. How to become a multiplier.
Noise
Beyond bias lies noise: unwanted variability in judgments that should be the same.
Outliers
Success isn't only about talent. Opportunity, timing, culture and practice shape who gets ahead.
Primal Leadership
A leader's most important job is emotional: creating resonance. Emotional intelligence applied to leadership.
Principles
The founder of Bridgewater Associates shares the principles he used for life, decisions and management.
Talent Is Overrated
Great performance comes from deliberate practice, not innate gifts. A business journalist explains the research.
Team of Teams
A retired general explains how a rigid military command transformed into a fast, networked 'team of teams'.
The 12 Week Year
Treat every 12 weeks as a full year. A system for focused goals, weekly plans and honest scorekeeping.
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Leadership is influence. Twenty-one principles from one of the most prolific writers on the subject.
The Confidence Code
Two journalists explore why many women underestimate themselves, and how confidence can be built through action.
The Daily Laws
A year of short daily lessons drawn from Robert Greene's books on power, mastery, strategy and human nature.
The Happiness Advantage
Happiness fuels success, not the other way round. Seven principles from positive psychology applied to work.
The Infinite Game
Business isn't a game you win; it's one you keep playing. Lead with a long-term, infinite mindset.
The Talent Code
Visits to 'talent hotbeds' around the world reveal how deep practice, ignition and master coaching grow skill.
Who Moved My Cheese?
A short fable about handling change instead of fearing it. Readable in under an hour.
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