2025-02-01
⭐ The Coaching Habit - Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
"The Coaching Habit" presents a radical departure from traditional leadership approaches, focusing on the power of curiosity and questions rather than advice-giving. The book challenges the common assumption that leaders...
⭐ Peopleware - Productive Projects and Teams
"Peopleware" challenges the conventional wisdom that software development productivity can be improved through technical solutions and process optimization. Instead, it argues that the major issues of software development are human,...
The Making of a Manager - What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
"The Making of a Manager" provides a modern, experience-based approach to management, focusing particularly on the challenges faced by first-time managers in technology companies. Drawing from her experience becoming a...
Team Topologies - Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Team Topologies presents a methodology for structuring technology organizations based on Conway's Law, team cognitive load, and well-defined interaction patterns. The book provides a practical model for designing team structures...
⭐ Working Backwards - Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
"Working Backwards" provides an insider's view of Amazon's operational and management practices from two long-time executives. The book details specific processes that enabled Amazon to scale from an online bookstore...
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - A Leadership Fable
"The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" presents a comprehensive model for understanding and overcoming the fundamental causes of team failure. Through a leadership fable followed by detailed analysis, Lencioni introduces...
The Fearless Organization - Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
"The Fearless Organization" introduces the concept of psychological safety and its critical role in enabling organizational learning and innovation. The book demonstrates how fear stifles creativity, inhibits learning, and prevents...
⭐ The Effective Executive - The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
"The Effective Executive" by Peter Drucker is a seminal work on management and leadership that has stood the test of time since its publication in 1966. Drucker challenges the notion...
Dare to Lead - Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
"Dare to Lead" challenges traditional notions of leadership, arguing that true leadership power comes not from authority or control, but from the courage to be vulnerable and the ability to...
Creativty, Inc - Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Creativity, Inc. explores how organizations can build and sustain a creative culture through the lens of Pixar Animation Studios' experiences. Written by Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, the book reveals the...
Advice Trap - Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever
"The Advice Trap" by Michael Bungay Stanier is a transformative guide that challenges our natural inclination to constantly give advice. Stanier argues that this habit, driven by our inner "advice...
Coachability - The Leadership Superpower
Why do so many talented leaders plateau in their careers? The answer often lies in a decline in coachability—the ability to receive and act on feedback. As leaders ascend the...
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI content presenting itself as human”, or even just...
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