My two favorites for this are 'Becoming a Technical Leader', Gerald Weinberg, and 'Making Things Happen', Scott Berkun.

Just buy these two books. You won't use everything in both, but they will give you enough ideas and perspective to make them both very worth reading:

"Making Things Happen" - OReilly
"The Art of Agile Development"

Making Things Happen;

Unfortunately, I read this book when it was too late for me, but definitely something to read if you ever get into management. The politics section itself is worth the price:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596517718

1. The Annotated Turing - Charles Petzold
2. SICP (going very slow)
3. Findability - Peter Morville
4. Making Things Happen - Scott Berkun

My favorite books on project management:

1. "Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager" is a high-level but pretty complete introduction. It has good good examples from non-technical projects based on the Project Management Institute's infamous "Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK). https://amzn.com/194163110X

2. Scott Berkun's "Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice)". Scott was a program manager at Microsoft and describes some of the less process-oriented, more "in the trenches" aspects to managing a project. https://amzn.com/0596517718

3. Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules". It's more of an encyclopedia of software project management and is now a bit dated (1996), pre-dating Scrum and Agile but all those ideas have been known for a long time. https://amzn.com/1556159005

'Making Things Happen', Scott Berkun

Wikipedia entries on philosophy are uniformly bad. Unfortunately I've never read a phil sci introduction that I liked, but if you're interested here is a sampling of notable phil sci books that occurred to me now. Note that many people who write phil sci might have professorships in other departments than philosophy and typically have an advanced degree in the science they specialize in. They just have more of an interest in speculative issues that build off already existing results or second-order questions or broadly integrative work than most practicioners, as well as at least enough background in the broader philosophical tradition to avoid basic gaffes or self-inflation resulting from narrow vision.

Judea Pearl - Causality

John Earman - World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute vs. Relational Theories of Space and Time

James Woodward - Making Things Happen

Jeff Bub - Interpreting the Quantum World

Peter Godfrey-Smith - Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection

Jesse Prinz - The Conscious Brain

Kim Sterelny - Thought in a Hostile World

And some historically important works:

Carnap - The Logical Structure of the World (in a loose sense, the first attempt at an AI program)

Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery (the philosophy of science practicing scientists now inherit and unquestionably assume)

Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (a ubiquitous work on scientific practice)

Readers of HN might also dig up Scott Aaronson's paper on how complexity theory might be applied to certain philosophical questions.

Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun.

I was reading this just yesterday:
http://oreilly.com/social-media/excerpts/9780596802004/why-s...

It's a chapter from the latest book by Scott Berkun (the author of "Making Things Happen") about public speaking and it mentions some numbers for how much speakers can get paid. At the very bottom, he writes that he's averaging $100k a year right now, from books and presentations. Just a few data points.

I finished Keynes, Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics (Nicholas Wapshott), started in 2015.

I read:

* Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (David Marquet)

* Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job (Dennis Bakke)

* Ne vous résignez pas ! (Bruno Le Maire - French politician)

* Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Michael Hiltzik)

* Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (Dan Lyons)

* Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Scott Berkun)

* Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (Thomas Sowell)

* The Success of Open Source (Steve Weber)

* Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Cathy O'Neil)

* Programming in Lua (fourth edition - I read every edition)

I started reading (and will probably finish by the end of the year) Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension (Samuel Arbesman).

As for what I recommend, it depends what you are into, but I would say I really enjoyed Making Things Happen, which is a must if you have any kind of project management to do, and Basic Economics.