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Leadership and Organization Books for Work
Books I've found helpful for thinking about management, leadership, organizations, and work in general. I generally call this L&O books. Sprinkled in are some more tech focused books.
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Don't Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition) — Joseph Nguyen
Chip War — Chris Miller
Say It Well — Terry Szuplat
Monolith to Microservices — Sam Newman
The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt, David Hurst Thomas
Learning Domain-Driven Design — Vlad Khononov
Clean Architecture — Robert C. Martin
Wherever You Go, There You Are — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small — John Gall
Scaling People — Claire Hughes Johnson
Leadership Without Easy Answers — Ronald Heifetz
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World — Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow
The Times — Adam Nagourney
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction — William Zinsser
The Elements of Style Illustrated — William Strunk Jr., E.B. White
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An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management — Will Larson
Command — LAWRENCE. FREEDMAN
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership — Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — Jon Gertner
The Personal MBA 10th Anniversary Edition — Josh Kaufman
50 Business Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy — Tom Butler-Bowdon
Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara
Ideas That Created the Future — Harry R. Lewis
New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age — Hal Brands
Wicked Problems — Guru Madhavan