Recommended Books for Engineering Managers

What books do we recommend for Engineering Managers?

New Managers

  • The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

Recognition of Team Members

  • Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Time Management

  • Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
  • The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance

Results

  • The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
  • Failing Forward

Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

  • Wisdom at Work
  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

Coaching

  • Multipliers
  • Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS
  • The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Leadership

  • Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
  • Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
  • Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
  • Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
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