Product Manager Booklist

An ever growing, non-exhaustive, booklist on Product, Leading, Business, Life and other good stuff.

Books on Product:

• Escape the build trap. By Melissa Perri

• Inspired. By Marty Cagan

• Empowered. By Marty Cagan (Available late 2020)

• The Lean Product Playbook. By Dan Olsen

• Product Leadership. By Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson & Nate Walkingshaw

• Outcomes Over Outputs. By Josh Seiden

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things. By Ben Horowitz

• Sprint. By by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz

• Radical Focus. By Christina Wodtke

• The "Lean Books":

  • The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

  • Lean Analytics. By Alistair Croll

  • Running Lean: Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works. By Ash Maurya

  • Lean UX. By Jeff Gothelf

  • Lean Customer Development. By Cindy Alvarez

  • UX for lean startups. By Laura Klien

  • Lean Enterprise. By Jez Humble

Books on Leading

• Feedback:

  • Radical Candor. By Kim Scott

  • Crucial Conversations. By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

  • Thanks for the Feedback. By Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone

• Anything by Peter F. Drucker (e.g. The Essential Drucker)

• Anything by Simon Sinek (e.g. Start With Why)

• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell. By Eric Schmidt

• Thinking, Fast And Slow. By Daniel Kahneman 

• Turn the Ship Around! By L. David Marquet

• Mindset: Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential. By Carol Dweck 

• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever. By Bungay Stanier Michael

• Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent. By Ryan Holiday

Books on Business

• High Output Management. By Andy Grove

• Zero to One. By Peter Thiel

• Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future. By Ashless Vance

• The Startup Way. By Eric Ries

• Steve Jobs. By Walter Issacson

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE. By Phil Knight

• Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonalds. By Ray Croc

• Jim Collins:

  • Good To Great

  • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

  • How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in

  • Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

• One Up On Wall Street. By Peter Lynch and John Rothchild

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street. By Burton G. Malkiel

Life

• The Barefoot Investor. By Scott Pape

• The Millionaire Next Door. By Thomas J. Ph.D. Stanley, William D. Ph.D Danko

• The Richest Man In Babylon. By George S Clason

• Think and Grow Rich. By Napoleon Hill

• Yuval Noah Harari  

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.

• Principles: Life and Work. By Ray Dalio

• Richard H Thaler:

  • Misbehaving: The Making Of Behavioural Economics.

  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth And Happiness

• Michael Lewis

  • The Undoing Project

  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (also available as the movie - same title)

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role Of Chance In Life And In The Markets

  • The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable

  • Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder