My Reading List as a Product Leader
My Reading List as a Product Leader
This reading list is a result of my absurd level of insatiable curiosity that is my greatest driver
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This is a list of all books that I have read since September 2021, am reading or will be picking up to read very soon.
There is a good balance and diversity, and most of these books are recommendations by product leaders and experts whom I follow diligently.
My core drivers that led me to this reading list is:
Table
Name
Categories
Author/s
Search
Name
Categories
Author/s
Status
1
7 Powers
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Hamilton Helmer
Reading presently
2
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
Design & User Experience
Product Development
Susan Weinschenk
Read once
3
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Design & User Experience
Product Development
User Psychology
Yu-Kai Chou
Read once
4
Alchemy
Design & User Experience
Leadership
Product Growth & Positioning
Rory Sutherland
Read once
5
Alignment
Cross-functional Teams
Product Management
Jonathan Hensley
Read once
6
Build
Leadership
Product Development
Values & Operating Principles
Vision & Strategy
Tony Fadell
Read more than once
7
Build What Matters
Product Development
Product Management
Vision & Strategy
Ben Foster, Rajesh Nerlikar
Yet to start
8
Building a Second Brain
Values & Operating Principles
Tiago Forte
Read once
9
Competing against Luck
Leadership
Product Discovery
Values & Operating Principles
Clayton Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David Duncan
Re-reading
10
Continuous Discovery Habits
Product Discovery
Teresa Torres
Read more than once
11
Cracking the PM Career
Hiring Awesome People
People Management
Jackie Bavaro, Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Read more than once
12
Crossing the Chasm
Cross-functional Teams
13
Decisive
Values & Operating Principles
Leadership
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Read once
14
Don’t Make Me Think
Design & User Experience
Product Development
Steve Krug
Re-reading sectionally
15
Empowered
Leadership
Product Management
Marty Cagan
Read more than once
16
Escaping the Build Trap
Product Development
Product Management
Melissa Perri
Read more than once
17
Essentialism
Values & Operating Principles
Greg McKeown
Read once
18
Games People Play
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Eric Berne
Read once
19
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
Vision & Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Reading presently
20
Hooked
Design & User Experience
Product Discovery
User Psychology
Nir Eyal
Re-reading sectionally
21
Inspired
Product Development
Product Management
Marty Cagan
Read more than once
22
Invisible Women
Design & User Experience
Values & Operating Principles
Caroline Criado Perez
Reading presently
23
Learning to Build
Product Development
Product Management
Bob Moesta
Read once
24
Managing the Unmanagable
Product Engineering
Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson
Read once
25
Measure What Matters
Vision & Strategy
Product Development
John Doerr
Read more than once
26
Monetizing Innovation
Product Growth & Positioning
Vision & Strategy
Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke
Read more than once
27
Never Split the Difference
Values & Operating Principles
Leadership
Chris Voss
Read once
28
Obviously Awesome
Product Growth & Positioning
April Dunford
Read once
29
Outnumbered
Data, Algo and Analytics
David Sumpter
Reading presently
30
Predictably Irrational
Data, Algo and Analytics
User Psychology
Design & User Experience
Dan Ariely
Read more than once
31
Principles
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Vision & Strategy
Ray Dalio
Reading presently
32
Product Leadership
Leadership
Product Management
Martin Eriksson, Richard Banfield, Nate Walkingshaw
Read once
33
Product Roadmaps Relaunched
Product Management
Product Development
Bruce McCarthy, C. Todd Lombardo, Evan Ryan, Michael Connors
Re-reading sectionally
34
Product-led Growth
Product Growth & Positioning
Product Development
Wes Bush
Read more than once
35
Product-led Onboarding
Product Growth & Positioning
Product Development
Ramli John
Re-reading sectionally
36
Radical Candor
Cross-functional Teams
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Kim Scott
Read more than once
37
Sprint
Design & User Experience
Product Development
Product Management
Cross-functional Teams
Jake Knapp
Re-reading sectionally
38
Start at the End
Design & User Experience
Product Discovery
User Psychology
Matt Wallaert
Yet to start
39
Strong Product People
Hiring Awesome People
People Management
Petra Wille
Read once
40
Super Thinking
Vision & Strategy
User Psychology
Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann
Re-reading sectionally
41
The Charisma Myth
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Olivia Fox Cabane
Read once
42
The Cold Start Problem
Design & User Experience
Values & Operating Principles
Product Development
Data, Algo and Analytics
Andrew Chen
Read once
43
The Courage to be Disliked
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
Reading presently
44
The Culture Map
Cross-functional Teams
People Management
User Psychology
45
The Design of Everyday Things
Design & User Experience
Product Discovery
User Psychology
Don Norman
Reading presently
46
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Cross-functional Teams
Patrick Lencioni
Read more than once
47
The Hard Things about Hard Things
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Product Development
Product Growth & Positioning
Vision & Strategy
Hiring Awesome People
Ben Horowitz
Read more than once
48
The Lean Product Playbook
People Management
Product Growth & Positioning
Product Development
Dan Olsen
Yet to start
49
The Making of a Manager
People Management
Product Development
Hiring Awesome People
Julie Zhuo
Read once
50
The Manager’s Path
Product Engineering
Product Management
Camille Fournier
Read once
51
The Messy Middle
Leadership
Vision & Strategy
Product Development
Values & Operating Principles
Scott Belsky
Read more than once
52
The Mom Test
Product Discovery
Product Development
Rob Fitzpatrick
Read more than once
53
The No Asshole Rule
Values & Operating Principles
Greg McKeown
Read once
54
The Phoenix Project
Product Development
Product Engineering
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Read once
55
The Pocket Universal Principles of Design
Design & User Experience
User Psychology
William Lidwell
Re-reading sectionally
56
The Score that Takes Care of Itself
Leadership
Vision & Strategy
Craig Walsh, Steve Jamison, Bill Walsh
Yet to start
57
Thinking in Bets
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Annie Duke
Yet to start
58
Understanding Michael Porter
Leadership
Vision & Strategy
Joan Magretta
Read more than once
59
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Leadership
Vision & Strategy
Marshall Goldsmith
Read once
60
What the Heck Do I Do with My Life
Leadership
Values & Operating Principles
Ravi Venkatesan
Read once
61
Working Backwards
Leadership
Design & User Experience
Product Discovery
Values & Operating Principles
People Management
Vision & Strategy
Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
Read more than once
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