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The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You

Rob Fitzpatrick and Robfitz Ltd

4.7 on Amazon

22 HN comments

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

4.6 on Amazon

9 HN comments

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries

4.6 on Amazon

9 HN comments

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

Will Larson

4.5 on Amazon

8 HN comments

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

Dan Olsen

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

4.5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Clayton M. Christensen, L.J. Ganser, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

Jim Collins

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

George Leonard

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Marty Cagan

4.6 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx, Derek Le Page, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Eric Berger

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefevre, Rick Rohan, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Gino Wickman

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

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jillesonMay 19, 2021

Read the book Inspired by Marty Cagan. If that doesn't get you excited about Product Management I don't know what will. Having 11 years of experience in tech will help tremendously but you'll need to have some awesome soft skills too.

rahimnathwanionJune 9, 2021

A list I put together a while back: https://www.encona.com/posts/product-manager-resources

Overview books:

* Inspired

* The Product Manager’s Desk Reference

* The Lean Startup

* Agile Product Management with Scrum

Interview preparation (good for breadth, even if you’re not applying for jobs):

* Decode & Conquer

* Cracking the PM interview

Other good books for PMs:

* Hooked

* The Design of Everyday Things

* Zero to One

* Traction

verdvermonApr 8, 2021

Sprint by Jake Knapp

Inspired by Marty Cagan

akg_67onApr 19, 2021

A list of books I posted in another thread:

* Start with Steve Blank’s The Startup Manual or Four Step to Epiphany. Other books:

* Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook

* Mart Cagan, Inspired

* Ryan Singer, Shape Up

* Jake Knapp, Sprint

* Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping

* Stephen Wunker, Costovation

Also checkout /r/productmanagement subreddit.

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