Reading List

Management

First, go out and buy a subscription to the Harvard Business Review. I don’t know of a better currently published resource than HBR for keeping up your management skills. Next spend a lot of time perusing Googles ReWork.

• US Army Leadership Guide
• Creating Great Teams: How Self-Selection Lets People Excel
• Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
• Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams
• First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
• Jerry Weinberg Skill Pack
• Leaders Eat Last
• Extreme Ownership
• The Manager’s Path
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
• The hard thing about hard things

Personal Development

• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
• Managing Oneself

Org Change

• Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Skills

• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
• Software Design X-Rays: Fix Technical Debt with Behavioral Code Analysis
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)
• Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Exposed and Explained by the World’s Two
• Storytellers Secret
• The First 90 Days
• The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development