Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
by marty-cagan
The job of a product manager is to discover products that are valuable, usable, and feasible—not to manage projects or gather requirements.
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(7)Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
by sarah-drasner
A practical guide to engineering management focused on empathy, trust, and supporting your team—written for those who didn't plan to become managers.
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
by seth-godin
Strategic quitting beats stubborn persistence. Winners quit the right things at the right time to focus resources on pursuits where they can be the best in the world.
You Can't Design Software You Don't Work On
by sean-goedecke
Effective software design requires hands-on codebase knowledge—architects who don't implement their designs lack accountability and produce solutions that ignore concrete system constraints.
Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink TEDx Talk
by jocko-willink
Jocko Willink shares a powerful lesson from his time as a Navy SEAL in Ramadi, Iraq: true leaders take extreme ownership of everything in their world, including mistakes and failures, rather than blaming others.
Leadership Principles & Personal Ownership
Foundational principles for effective leadership and personal accountability
Start with Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Action
by simon-sinek
Simon Sinek introduces the Golden Circle framework, explaining how great leaders and organizations inspire action by starting with 'why' rather than 'what' - because people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.