Books
A list of non-fiction books I like.
June 23, 2019, tags: listbooks
Table of Contents
Books I’ve read
| Title | Author | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Lean Startup | Eric Ries | lean, startup, process, MVP |
| Crossing the Chasm | Geoffry Moore | product lifecycle, marketing, positioning, pricing |
| High Output Management | Andry Grove | management, leadership, performance reviews, one-on-ones |
| Decisive | Chip and Dan Heath | decision making |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel | startups, economy, 7 questions to ask |
| Measure what Matters | John Doerr | OKRs, goal setting, silicon valley insights, management |
| The Hard Things about the Hard Things | Ben Horowitz | netscape, loudcloud, IPOs, organizational processes, hiring, management, leadership, culture |
| Radical Candor | Kim Scott | feedback, criticism, situation behavior impact, skip level meetings |
| The Manager’s Path | Camille Fournier | engineering management, management, leadership |
| Blitzscaling | Reid Hoffman | silicon valley insights, organizational processes, startups, scaling, business, strategy, management, innovation |
| The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni | teams, management, leadership |
| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey | self improvement, focus |
| Getting Things Done | David Allen | GTD, self improvement, project planning |
| Influence | Robert B. Cialdini | persuasion, self improvement |
| Turn the Ship Around | L. David Marquet | leadership |
| Managing Humans | Michael Lopp | management, engineering management, leadership |
| The first 90 Days | Michael Watkins | strategy, career |
| Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | systems, performance |
| Thinking fast and slow | Daniel Kahneman | thinking, self improvement |
| Crucial Accountability | Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, David Maxfield | communication |
Books I want to read
Many of them are already in my bookshelf but haven’t found their way into my hands and head or are read-in-progress.
| Title | Author | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | systems |
| The Making of a Manager | Julie Zhuo | management, leadership |
| Don’t Think of an Elephant! | George Lakoff | communication, speaking, framing |
| Antifragile | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | systems |
| On Writing Well | William Zinsser | writing |
| Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari | systems |
Other Book Lists
| Title | Author | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Jesse Palmer’s Engineering Managers Booklist | Jesse Palmer | list |
| Engineering Management Institue Reading List | - | list |
| Bookauthority.org | - | list |
| Marc Andressen Twitter Book List Thread | Marc Andressen | list |
| TheLeadDev Book List | TheLeadDev | list |
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