15 Recommended Summer Reads for Product People and Beyond…
Plus one bonus podcast!
This month’s Lunch Club was dedicated to summer reading recommendations. What books have we been reading that we’d like to recommend and which titles will we be adding to our wish-lists?
In no particular order…
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Picketty
Strange stories, Amazing facts by Readers Digest
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century by Jeff Lawson
Good Services: How to Design Services that Work by Lou Downe
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, Cheaper Than Yours (and What To Do About It) by Salim Ismail, Mike Malone, Yuri van Geest, Peter H. Diamandis (Foreword)
Pig Wrestling: Clean Your Thinking to Create the Change you Need by Pete Lindsay, Mark Bawden
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes — But Some Do by Matthew Syed
What CEOs Need To Know About Design: A business leader’s guide to working with designers by Audrey Crane
The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
And the bonus podcast: More or Less: Behind the Stats from BBC Radio 4
These are just recommendations of course, made by a selection of attendees Product Lunch Club —we’ve not all read all of them, but we hope you find some of them helpful.
Whilst not all of these are directly focused on product management as a discipline, they can help broaden our horizons, inspire our being, feed our minds and help us think critically, looking below the surface.
Let us know what you think! And have a great summer.
Product Lunch Club plans to be back in full force in the autumn.
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