Books Up Next
This is my TBR (To Be Read) list. Most of these were recommended to me from people I know, or mentioned in other books I have read.
Technical/Engineering
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
- Matthew Skelton
- #engineering, #technology, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
- Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- #engineering, #technology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Driving Technical Change: Why People On Your Team Don’t Act On Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should
- Terrence Ryan
- #engineering, #technology, #leadership, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility
- Mark Schwartz
- #engineering, #technology, #leadership, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect’s Role in the Digital Enterprise
- Gregor Hohpe
- #engineering, #technology, #architecture, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
- Nicole Forsgren
- #engineering, #technology, #devops, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
- Marianne Bellotti
- #engineering, #technology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Art Of Business Value
- Mark Schwartz
- #engineering, #business, #technology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
- Sam Newman
- #engineering, #architecture, #technology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Technical architecture that bridges engineering and management
- Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy
- Eben Hewitt
- #technology, #strategy, #architecture, #engineering, #audiobook
- Technical strategy like your highly-rated technical leadership books
- Ahead in the Cloud: Best Practices for Navigating the Future of Enterprise IT
- Stephen Orban
- #technology, #cloud, #enterprise, #non-fiction, #audiobook
Leadership/Management
- Dare to Lead
- Brené Brown
- #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- Stephen R. Covey
- #leadership, #self-help, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- 1% Leadership: Master the Small, Daily Improvements that Set Great Leaders Apart
- Andy Ellis
- #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual
- Jocko Willink
- #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses Into Results
- Cy Wakeman
- #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
- Kerry Patterson
- #leadership, #communication, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
- Michael Bungay Stanier
- #leadership, #coaching, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization
- John Wooden
- #leadership, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Leadership: In Turbulent Times
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- #leadership, #history, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
- Simon Sinek
- #leadership, #management, #culture, #audiobook
- The Infinite Game
- Simon Sinek
- #leadership, #business, #philosophy, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management: Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Michael Armstrong
- #management, #performance, #culture, #non-fiction
- Manager as Negotiator
- David A. Lax
- #management, #negotiation, #leadership, #non-fiction
- Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- Kim Malone Scott
- #leadership, #management, #culture, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Leading From Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams
- David Burkus
- #leadership, #management, #remote-work, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- Robert Iger, Joel Lovell
- #leadership, #business, #management, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable
- Patrick Lencioni
- #leadership, #business-fable, #management, #audiobook
- Another business fable by your favorite 5-star author
- Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors
- Patrick Lencioni
- #leadership, #business-fable, #culture, #audiobook
- Leadership fable format you consistently rate 5-star
- The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
- Michael Watkins
- #leadership, #management, #career, #audiobook
- Leadership transition book, management focus like your 4-star books
- Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
- Liz Wiseman
- #leadership, #management, #culture, #audiobook
- Leadership effectiveness, similar to your management books
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
- General Stanley McChrystal
- #leadership, #military, #management, #audiobook
- Military leadership applied to business (like Jocko books you rated highly)
- The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
- Chris McChesney
- #leadership, #execution, #business, #non-fiction
- Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership
- Bill Torbert
- #leadership, #transformation, #management, #non-fiction
- Don’t Hire Anyone Without Me!: A revolutionary approach to interviewing and hiring the best
- Carol Quinn
- #leadership, #hiring, #hr, #non-fiction
- Ego Free Leadership: Ending the Unconscious Habits That Hijack Your Business
- Brandon Black
- #leadership, #self-awareness, #management, #non-fiction
- Entreleadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
- Dave Ramsey
- #leadership, #business, #entrepreneurship, #non-fiction
- First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
- Marcus Buckingham
- #leadership, #management, #hr, #non-fiction
- Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership
- John C. Maxwell
- #leadership, #questioning, #management, #non-fiction
- Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace
- John C. Maxwell
- #leadership, #change, #transformation, #non-fiction
- Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
- The Arbinger Institute
- #leadership, #self-awareness, #psychology, #non-fiction
- Leading Change
- John P. Kotter
- #leadership, #change-management, #transformation, #non-fiction
- Meetings Suck: Turning One of The Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable
- Cameron Herold
- #leadership, #meetings, #productivity, #non-fiction
- Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
- David Rock
- #leadership, #performance, #coaching, #non-fiction
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
- Chip Heath
- #leadership, #change, #psychology, #non-fiction
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
- John C Maxwell
- #leadership, #principles, #management, #non-fiction
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
- Peter F. Drucker
- #leadership, #management, #productivity, #non-fiction
- The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All
- Michael Useem
- #leadership, #case-studies, #management, #non-fiction
- The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell
- Oren Harari
- #leadership, #military, #biography, #non-fiction
- The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership
- BURNISON
- #leadership, #principles, #management, #non-fiction
- The Vision Driven Leader: 10 Questions to Focus Your Efforts, Energize Your Team, and Scale Your Business
- Michael Hyatt
- #leadership, #vision, #strategy, #non-fiction
- Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit
- James Strock
- #leadership, #history, #biography, #non-fiction
- Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
- Stewart D. Friedman
- #leadership, #work-life-balance, #management, #non-fiction
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
- Seth Godin
- #leadership, #community, #influence, #non-fiction
- Virtuous Leadership
- Alexandre Havard
- #leadership, #virtue, #ethics, #non-fiction
- We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill
- Celia Sandys
- #leadership, #biography, #history, #non-fiction
- John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do
- John P. Kotter
- #leadership, #management, #change, #non-fiction
- Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus
- Michael Roberto
- #leadership, #decision-making, #conflict, #non-fiction
- Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication
- Andy Stanley
- #leadership, #communication, #speaking, #non-fiction
- Conversational Capacity: The Secret to Building Successful Teams That Perform When the Pressure Is On
- Craig Weber
- #leadership, #communication, #teamwork, #non-fiction
- Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- Travis Bradberry
- #leadership, #emotional-intelligence, #self-awareness, #non-fiction
- How to Work with Jerks: Getting Stuff Done with People You Can’t Stand
- Eric L. Williamson
- #leadership, #communication, #workplace, #non-fiction
- Influence Redefined: Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday
- Stacey Hanke
- #leadership, #influence, #communication, #non-fiction
- The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
- The Arbinger Institute
- #leadership, #conflict-resolution, #psychology, #non-fiction
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
- Daniel Coyle
- #leadership, #culture, #teamwork, #non-fiction
Business/Entrepreneurship
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
- Erin Meyer
- #business, #culture, #communication, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Lean Startup
- Eric Ries
- #entrepreneurship, #business, #startup, #audiobook
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
- Clayton M. Christensen
- #business, #innovation, #entrepreneurship, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Robert B. Cialdini
- #psychology, #persuasion, #business, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
- Rob Fitzpatrick
- #business, #entrepreneurship, #customer-development, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- Peter Thiel
- #entrepreneurship, #business, #startup, #audiobook
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
- Josh Kaufman
- #business, #entrepreneurship, #education, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The 4-Hour Workweek
- Timothy Ferriss
- #business, #productivity, #entrepreneurship, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
- Jim Collins
- #business, #management, #strategy, #audiobook
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
- Richard P. Rumelt
- #business, #strategy, #management, #non-fiction
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Malcolm Gladwell
- #business, #psychology, #sociology, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- How To Win Friends and Influence People
- Dale Carnegie
- #business, #communication, #relationships, #audiobook
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- Chip Heath
- #business, #communication, #marketing, #non-fiction
- Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2023
- Warren Buffett
- #finance, #investment, #business, #non-fiction
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
- Ben Horowitz
- #entrepreneurship, #business, #leadership, #non-fiction
- Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less
- Joseph McCormack
- #business, #communication, #leadership, #non-fiction
- Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork
- Dan Sullivan
- #business, #productivity, #leadership, #non-fiction
- Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
- Aaron Dignan
- #business, #organizational-change, #innovation, #non-fiction
- Business Made Simple: 60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution, Management, Personal Productivity and More (Made Simple Series)
- Donald Miller
- #business, #entrepreneurship, #productivity, #non-fiction
- Know What You’re FOR: A Growth Strategy for Work, An Even Better Strategy for Life
- Jeff Henderson
- #business, #strategy, #purpose, #non-fiction
- Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-And Keeping It There
- Les McKeown
- #business, #growth, #organizational-development, #non-fiction
- Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine (Entrepreneurship Simplified)
- Mike Michalowicz
- #business, #finance, #entrepreneurship, #non-fiction
- That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
- Marc Randolph
- #business, #entrepreneurship, #startup, #biography
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
- Patrick M. Lencioni
- #business, #organizational-health, #leadership, #non-fiction
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Malcolm Gladwell
- #business, #psychology, #decision-making, #non-fiction
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
- Keith Ferrazzi
- #business, #networking, #relationships, #non-fiction
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Richard H. Thaler
- #business, #behavioral-economics, #decision-making, #non-fiction
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
- Malcolm Gladwell
- #business, #psychology, #communication, #non-fiction
- Building a StoryBrand 2.0: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
- Donald Miller
- #business, #marketing, #communication, #non-fiction
- Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior
- PATTERSON
- #business, #accountability, #communication, #non-fiction
- The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
- Matthew Dixon
- #business, #sales, #customer-development, #non-fiction
- Great Demo!: How to Create and Execute Stunning Software Demonstrations
- Peter Cohan
- #business, #sales, #software, #non-fiction
- Doing Discovery: The Single Most Important Element of Software Sales and Buyer Enablement Processes
- Peter Cohan
- #business, #sales, #customer-development, #non-fiction
- The Trusted Advisor
- David H. Maister
- #business, #consulting, #relationships, #non-fiction
- The Trusted Advisor Sales Engineer
- John Care
- #business, #sales, #technical-sales, #non-fiction
- Mastering Technical Sales: The Sales Engineer’s Handbook
- John Care
- #business, #sales, #technical-sales, #non-fiction
- The Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers
- Chris White
- #business, #sales, #technical-sales, #non-fiction
Aviation
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
- Ben R. Rich
- #aviation, #military, #engineering, #audiobook
- Freight Dog: The Dark Side of Aviation
- Kimber C. Turner
- #aviation, #non-fiction
- The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane
- Richard Quest
- #aviation, #mystery, #non-fiction
- Ferry Pilot: Nine Lives Over the North Atlantic.
- Kerry McCauley
- #aviation, #adventure, #non-fiction
- Dangerous Flights: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Kerry McCauley
- #aviation, #adventure, #non-fiction
- Mike Busch on Airplane Ownership (Volume 1): What every aircraft owner needs to know about selecting, purchasing, insuring, maintaining, troubleshooting, modifying, and flying light airplanes
- Mike Busch
- #aviation, #maintenance, #ownership, #non-fiction
- Mike Busch on Airplane Ownership
- Mike Busch
- #aviation, #maintenance, #ownership, #non-fiction
- The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World’s Most Mysterious Air Disasters
- Christine Negroni
- #aviation, #investigation, #safety, #audiobook
Security/Cybersecurity
- CISO Desk Reference Guide Volume 2: A Practical Guide for CISOs
- Bill Bonney, Gary Hayslip, Matt Stamper
- #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
- CISO Desk Reference Guide: A Practical Guide for CISOs
- Bill Bonney, Gary Hayslip, Matt Stamper
- #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
- CISO Impact and Influence: How Cybersecurity Executives Can Take the Lead and Nudge the World
- Chris Brown
- #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
- Why CISOs Fail: The Missing Link in Security Management–and How to Fix It
- Barak Engel
- #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
- The Cyber Leadership Imperative: Powerful Strategies to Unlock Your Potential and Become an Exceptional Cybersecurity Executive
- Phillimon Zongo, Darren Argyle, Jan Schreuder
- #cybersecurity, #security, #leadership, #non-fiction
Product Management
- Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
- Marty Cagan
- #product-management, #business, #leadership, #non-fiction
- Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
- C. Todd Lombardo
- #product-management, #business, #strategy, #non-fiction
- Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
- Richard Banfield
- #product-management, #leadership, #business, #non-fiction
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- Marty Cagan
- #product-management, #business, #technology, #non-fiction
- Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
- Mik Kersten
- #product-management, #business, #transformation, #non-fiction
- Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
- Jonathan Smart
- #product-management, #agile, #business, #non-fiction
Personal Development
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- James Clear
- #self-help, #productivity, #habits, #audiobook
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- Adam M. Grant
- #psychology, #self-help, #learning, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- David Allen
- #productivity, #self-help, #organization, #audiobook
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Daniel Kahneman
- #psychology, #decision-making, #behavioral-economics, #audiobook
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
- Atul Gawande
- #productivity, #systems, #process, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Thinking In Systems: A Primer
- Donella H. Meadows
- #systems-thinking, #complexity, #problem-solving, #non-fiction
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- #process-improvement, #systems, #business, #non-fiction
- Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
- Beau Lotto
- #psychology, #perception, #creativity, #non-fiction
- Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
- Jon Acuff
- #productivity, #goal-setting, #self-help, #non-fiction
- Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
- Michael Hyatt
- #personal-development, #goal-setting, #life-planning, #non-fiction
- Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
- Michael Hyatt
- #productivity, #personal-development, #focus, #non-fiction
- Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
- Tiago Forte
- #productivity, #knowledge-management, #organization, #non-fiction
- The Elements of Style
- William Strunk Jr.
- #writing, #communication, #reference, #classic
- On Writing Well
- William Zinsser
- #writing, #communication, #craft, #non-fiction
- Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
- Nancy Duarte
- #communication, #presentation, #storytelling, #non-fiction
- slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
- Nancy Duarte
- #communication, #presentation, #design, #non-fiction
- Talk Like TED
- Carmine Gallo
- #communication, #presentation, #speaking, #non-fiction
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
- Carmine Gallo
- #communication, #presentation, #speaking, #biography
Finance/Business Cases
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
- Andrew Ross Sorkin
- #finance, #crisis, #economics, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- Michael Lewis
- #finance, #economics, #crisis, #audiobook
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
- Bethany McLean
- #business, #finance, #scandal, #non-fiction, #audiobook
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- John Carreyrou
- #business, #startup, #scandal, #audiobook
- Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
- Mark Robichaux
- #business, #biography, #telecommunications, #non-fiction, #audiobook