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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