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Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Julie Zhuo

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good)

Robert Kegan

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

Julia Galef

4.6 on Amazon

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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)

Benjamin Graham , Jason Zweig , et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

COVID-19: The Great Reset

Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret

3.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude

Mark Douglas, Kaleo Griffith, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

Patrick M. Lencioni

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Marty Cagan and Chris Jones

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

Michael Lewis

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Richest Man in Babylon: Original 1926 Edition

George S. Clason , Charles Conrad, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (The Strategyzer Series)

Alexander Osterwalder , Yves Pigneur , et al.

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

4.9 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated

David F. Swensen

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy

D. Michael Abrashoff and Hachette Audio

4.7 on Amazon

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ykat7onJuly 8, 2021

This was a nice succinct writeup. On the topic, here are some books I'd recommend for ICs making the jump to a manager role (or thinking about it):

1. The Making of a Manager (https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manager-What-Everyone-Looks-eb...)

2. The Manager's Path (https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...)

3. Crucial Conversations (https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-...)

4. The Coaching Habit (https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Habit-Less-Change-Forever-eb...)

5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Len...)

I'm still due to read High Output Management (https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove-e...) and Extreme Ownership (https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-eboo...).

caust1conJune 7, 2021

This whole damn list can be boiled down to "how to communicate effectively" and isn't very actionable at all by the reader. Which isn't too much of a surprise to me because that's the exact way I felt reading Manager's Path. It's even a bit insulting that it's targeted at engineers, furthering the narrative that engineers are bad communicators.

Much better books in this space are "The Making of a Manager" by Julie Zhuo and "Elegant Puzzle" by Will Larson. Both very insightful and actionable. The latter is a bit dense though.