Engineering Managers

Software Engineering Manager Reading Path

Essential reading for engineers transitioning into management. Build your leadership toolkit and learn to lead technical teams effectively.

Outcome: Lead technical teams, build culture, deliver great products.

Satya Nadella, 2018

But as management guru Peter Drucker once said, Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Our industry does not respect tradition. What it respects is innovation.

Steven R. Covey, 1989

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Start with the end in mind.

Ben Horowitz, 2014

While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one
Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies

Simon Sinek, 2017

In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek, internationally bestselling author of Start With Why, investigates these great leaders from Marine Corps Officers, who don't just sacrifice their place at the table but often their own comfort and even their lives for those in their care, to the heads of big business and government

David Marquet, 2015

He is the kind of leader who comes around only once a generation
He is the kind of leader who doesn't just know how to lead, he knows how to build leaders

Peter F. Drucker, 2007

The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to 'get the right things done'
Usually this involves doing what other people have overlooked, as well as avoiding what is unproductive

Kim Scott, 2019

Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people love both their work and their colleagues, and are motivated to strive to ever greater success

Marty Cagan, 2018

In INSPIRED, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love-and that will work for your business

Cal Newport, 2016

DEEP WORK accomplishes two considerable tasks: One is putting out a wealth of concrete practices for the ambitious, without relying on gauzy cliches

Daniel Coyle, 2019

The Culture Code reveals the secrets of some of the best teams in the world - from Pixar to Google to US Navy SEALs - explaining the three skills such teams have mastered in order to generate trust and a willingness to collaborate

Adam Grant, 2017

In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.
Argue like you're right and listen like you're wrong.

David Thomas,Andrew Hunt, 2019

Invest regularly in your knowledge portfolio.
Don't repeat yourself — every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.

Nicole Forsgren,Jez Humble,Gene Kim, 2018

The highest-performing IT organizations deploy 46 times more frequently than low performers.
High performers have 2,555 times faster time from commit to deploy.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., 1995

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.

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