How do I actually get through to people?

Builds on Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People tradition of empathic listening, while rejecting its instrumentalism in favor of needs-based dialogue

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life→ cites →How to Win Friends and Influence People

Extends Schwartz's paradox of choice into the digital realm, showing how unlimited communication options paradoxically impoverish the quality of our conversations and relationships

Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age→ cites →The Paradox of Choice

DeMarco directly engages with Brooks' Mythical Man-Month, extending its arguments about team size and communication overhead

Peopleware→ cites →The Mythical Man-Month

Crucial Conversations features foreword by Covey.

Crucial Conversations→ cites →The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Sagan references Hawking's A Brief History of Time as model science communication.

The Demon-Haunted World→ cites →A Brief History of Time

Skelton references Brooks's Mythical Man-Month on team communication.

Team Topologies→ cites →The Mythical Man-Month

Extends the Golden Circle thesis from Sinek's own Start with Why, arguing that a clearly articulated why is what allows leaders to build the Circle of Safety

Leaders Eat Last→ cites →Start with Why

Positioned explicitly as the practical sequel to Sinek's Start with Why, applying the Golden Circle to individuals and teams who want to articulate their own why

Find Your Why→ cites →Start with Why

References Collins' Good to Great hedgehog concept when guiding readers to articulate a why that sits at the intersection of passion, skill, and service

Find Your Why→ cites →Good to Great

Draws on Patterson and colleagues' Crucial Conversations when describing how managers must coach team members who are missing one of the three virtues

The Ideal Team Player→ cites →Crucial Conversations

Explicit companion volume to Patterson and colleagues' own Crucial Conversations, applying the same STATE-and-safety model specifically to accountability failures

Crucial Accountability→ cites →Crucial Conversations

Draws on Cialdini's consistency and commitment principle when teaching readers how to get follow-through after an accountability conversation

Crucial Accountability→ cites →Influence

Feathers references Brooks's Mythical Man-Month when discussing the accidental complexity that accumulates in large codebases and the communication overhead of working with legacy systems.

Working Effectively with Legacy Code→ cites →The Mythical Man-Month

The SRE book cites Brooks's Mythical Man-Month in its discussion of communication overhead and team scaling limits when designing production support organisations.

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems→ cites →The Mythical Man-Month

References Cialdini's Pre-Suasion on priming attention when explaining how word choice shifts what listeners focus on before the core message arrives

Magic Words→ cites →Pre-Suasion