Product Manager’s Library

Essential reading for product managers.

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln

Leadership/Culture — Leading people & teams

• High Output Management — Andy Groove
• It’s your Ship — Michael Abrashoff
• The score takes care of itself — Bill Walsh
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
• Where good ideas come from — Steven Johnson
• Extreme Ownership (Navy Seals) — Jocko Willink
• Work Rules — Lazlo Bock
• 5 Dysfunctions of a team — Patrick Lencioni
• Give and Take — Adam Grant

The PM Basics (strategy, story, decisions, design, negotiations)

Vision & Storytelling

• Strategic Storytelling — Dave Mckinsey
• Start With Why — Simon Sinek
• Switch — Dan & Chip Heath
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• BOLD — Peter Diamandis

Strategy & Planning

• Decisive — Dan & Chip Heath
• Growth Engines — Sean Ellis
• Hide a dagger behind a smile — Kaihan Krippendorf (36 Chinese Stratagems for Business)
• Thinking Fast & Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• How to measure anything — Douglas Hunter
• How to Win — Mark Cuban

Great Design

• Made to Stick — Dan & Chip Heath
• Design of everyday things — Don Norman
• Don’t Make Me Think — Steve Krug

Leading with soft power

• The Art of Asking — Terry Fadem
• Getting Past No — William Ury
• To Sell Is Human — Daniel Pink
• How to get people to do stuff — Susan Weinshenk

Better fast forward to the future, by knowing your history:

• How Google Works — Eric Schmidt
• In the Plex — Steven Levy
• The Everything Store — Brad Stone
• Innovators Dilemma — Clayton Christensen
• Becoming Steve Jobs — Brent Schlender
• Steve Jobs Biography — Walter Isaacson
• Exponential Organization — Salim Ismail
• The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell
• Creativity Inc. — Ed Catmull — The Pixar Story
• Mary Meeker’s annual ‘state of technology’ [2015 Internet Trends]