Books like Lean In

If you liked Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

    Jim Collins · 2001

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction, leadership.

    A five-year study of 11 companies that leapt ahead shows Level 5 leaders, right people, hedgehog focus and flywheel momentum explain…

  2. Start with Why

    Simon Sinek · 2009

    Because shares tags: business, leadership.

    Great leaders start with Why before How and What, from Apple to King.

  3. Bad Blood

    John Carreyrou · 2018

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, business.

    How Theranos sold finger prick miracles, faked tests, and silenced staff who knew patients were at risk.

  4. We Should All Be Feminists

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2014

    Because shares tags: feminism, nonfiction.

    Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.

  5. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · 2014

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction.

    Thiel argues monopolies create value through vertical progress, not by copying competition.

  6. Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill · 1937

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, business.

    Hill teaches desire, faith and autosuggestion, distilling lessons from Carnegie interviews into thirteen principles for success.

  7. The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries · 2011

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction.

    Ries lays out Build-Measure-Learn, MVPs, pivots and validated learning for building companies under extreme uncertainty.

  8. Who Moved My Cheese?

    Spencer Johnson · 1998

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction.

    A tiny parable about two mice and two little people hunting cheese in a maze, and why adapting to change beats waiting for old days to…

  9. The Power of Habit

    Charles Duhigg · 2012

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction.

    Why we do what we do: the cue routine reward loop, keystone habits, and how companies and movements use the same science, from toothpaste…

  10. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2000

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction.

    How tiny shifts push ideas and products past a tipping point into epidemics.

  11. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    Stephen R. Covey · 1989

    Because shares tags: leadership, business.

    Covey's famous framework for living by principle: seven habits that move from private victory to working well with others.

  12. Rich Dad Poor Dad

    Robert T. Kiyosaki · 1997

    Because shares tags: business, nonfiction.

    Kiyosaki contrasts his poor dad and rich dad to teach assets, liabilities and minding your business.

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