Leadership and Management Bookshelf

I believe that in leadership and management, nothing beats personal experience with its mistakes and successes, role models inside or outside of your company, and mentors. However, I find that reading is what accelerates my path to becoming a better leader.

The bookshelves usually lack any particular order, and so does this list:

• Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager by Dr. James Stanier
• An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• Learning Leadership by Barry Posner and James M. Kouzes
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson
• When They Win, You Win by Russ Laraway
• The Engineering Executive's Primer by Will Larson
• The Coaching Manual by Julie Starr
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
• Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson
• Staff Engineer by Will Larson
• What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
• The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly
• The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
• Scaling Teams by Alexander Grosse and David Loftesness
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott
• Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
• The First 90 Days by Michael D. Watkins
• Master Your Next Move by Michael D. Watkins
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
• Monetizing Innovation by Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke
• Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition by Joseph Grenny