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Every book Bob Moesta recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Bob Moesta has recommended or discussed 5 books on podcasts, as of February 23, 2025.
- Bob Moesta has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of February 23, 2025.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of February 23, 2025.
- The 3 books Bob Moesta has mentioned in the most episodes, as of February 23, 2025: Never Split the Difference, Shape Up and The End of Average.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Bob Moesta aired on February 23, 2025.
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Bob Moesta appeared on Lenny's Podcast to discuss the Jobs-to-Be-Done framework, finding work you love, and interviewing techniques. Throughout the conversations, he recommended several books that shaped his methods and philosophy. He recommended Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz, praising its interviewing and negotiation techniques. He also named Shape Up by Ryan Singer as one of the books he recommends most often to others. Furthermore, Bob recommended The End of Average by Todd Rose, noting that he listens to the audiobook annually and consistently gains new insights from it. In addition to his recommendations, Bob discussed his collaboration with Clayton Christensen on Competing Against Luck, describing how he helped on the book for sixteen months as they turned the Jobs-to-Be-Done concept into a formalized method. He also touched upon his book Job Moves, written with Ethan Bernstein and Michael B. Horn, explaining how domain availability influenced its final title.
Books Bob Moesta recommended or discussed
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Never Split the Difference
Recommended“I'd tell you is go read uh never split the difference by Chris Boss like I started to write a book around basically techniques that I learned back in the 80s and 90s around this and he his book is amazing around it”
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Shape Up
Recommended“what are two or three books that you've recommended most to other people Shape Up by Ryan Singer it's phenomenal the other book”
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The End of Average
Recommended“I would say is end of average by Todd Rose I listen listen to it every single year I get something out of it every single year I've been listening to it for probably eight or 10 years”
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Competing Against Luck
Discussed“and ultimately we turned it into a method so like if you look at competing against luck it was written with taty Hall and Karen Dylan and uh Dave Duncan but I was I I helped on that book uh for 16 months”
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Job Moves
Discussed“well to be honest it was one of the reasons why we named the book the way it was because the domain was available I think I read you were originally going to call this book hire your next job or something like that”
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Books Bob Moesta wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (15: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged Job Moves
“the book launched in November and ultimately it's uh I think that ultimately I'll be remembered more for this book than jobs to be done because I think there's a billion people a year who switch jobs and ultimately most of them end up with a job that's worse than the one they were at”
Plugged Job Moves
“the one of the things we do in the book so it's nine steps right for you to basically go through and the reality is is like I would tell you like I'm not sure anybody's going to do all nine steps but the fact is is like this is like if you're going to do this this is this”
Plugged Job Moves
“and so this book is a natural extension of that skill that I have and that I like to do and so it's one of it's not surprising I got here but like I I never would have guessed that I would have end up in the HR space trying to help people find their work”
Plugged Job Moves
“and so that was we talk about that in the book in terms of how do we unpack the language so you understand the causal mechanisms”
Plugged Job Moves
“because here's the thing is job descriptions should really be here's the context we're in here's what this role is about here's what progress means in this role and here's where here's here's how we will actually reward you for actually doing this work and and it's just not that way and so again I'm I'm working on a another”
Plugged Job Moves
“it's kind of weird but like I'm actually using the book as as uh like if you want to apply for a job with me we got to go through the process and so basically they have to come to me and tell me their energy drivers and drains they have to tell me what they're good at and what”
Plugged Job Moves
“but let's be clear I wrote this we wrote this Michael Horn and Ethan Bernstein and I we wrote this with the intent of helping employees hire companies and and ultimately we have a lot of companies coming back to us and saying Help Us fix the way we we recruit”
Plugged Job Moves
“so on job moves there's some resources and there's a test you can take and it'll tell you which Quest you're in so it asks you kind of pushes and pulls and puts it together then tells you the probability that you're in one of the one of the four quests”
Plugged Job Moves
“so I know you finished the book in November so I imagine that was related to your it was it was all about the launch of the book and it's like I I I I my whole thing is the book was done and it was like then the the the publisher put all this pre yeah they put so”
Plugged Learning to Build
“I have them still, but for the most part out of it came a book called Learning to Build and it was my appreciation that these four people had poured so much knowledge into me to make me to enable me to be an innovator.”
Plugged Demand-Side Sales 101
“and so I wrote a book called demands Side sales that that basically took the premise of like stop to sell people and just help them make progress help them buy”
Plugged Demand-Side Sales 101
“I have a company called scribe media and what we do is we frame first thing we do is we look for what are the struggling moments the book is going to address what struggling moments do people have”
Passing The Gift of Dyslexia
“and so this was this is what happens by the way being this is The Gift of Dyslexia is I'm not an a student and so most a students don't start until they know the answer”
Plugged Demand-Side Sales 101
“if someone wanted to start actually following through on this which book would you recommend they start with to help them understand how to apply your approach I would have them read demands Side sales”
Plugged Learning to Build
“and these are paintings of my mentors and they're above me but uh Dr Deming clay uh Dr taguchi and Dr Willie Moore I wrote about them in a book called learning to build and and the five skills that they taught me”