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The 7 Habits of Highly Effe...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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Stephen R. Covey

4.16 avg rating — 814,409 ratings
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The Pragmatic Programmer: F...
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)

4.33 avg rating — 23,871 ratings
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So Good They Can't Ignore Y...
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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Cal Newport

4.07 avg rating — 49,852 ratings
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The Power of Habit: Why We ...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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Charles Duhigg (Goodreads Author)

4.13 avg rating — 557,651 ratings
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The Spirit of Kaizen: Creat...
The Spirit of Kaizen: Creating Lasting Excellence One Small Step at a Time
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Robert Maurer

4.08 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
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Badass: Making Users Awesome
Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Kathy Sierra

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The Effective Executive: Th...
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
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Peter F. Drucker

4.08 avg rating — 37,566 ratings
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Great at Work: How Top Perf...
Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
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Morten T. Hansen

3.80 avg rating — 3,453 ratings
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The Checklist Manifesto: Ho...
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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Atul Gawande

4.04 avg rating — 74,847 ratings
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The Effective Engineer: How...
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
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Edmond Lau (Goodreads Author)

4.25 avg rating — 1,773 ratings
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Code Complete: A Practical ...
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)

4.30 avg rating — 9,474 ratings
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Clean Code: A Handbook of A...
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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Robert C. Martin

4.36 avg rating — 23,310 ratings
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Code Simplicity: The Fundam...
Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
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Max Kanat-Alexander (Goodreads Author)

3.75 avg rating — 616 ratings
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Facts and Fallacies of Soft...
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
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Paul Becker

3.95 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Rapid Development: Taming W...
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)

3.98 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Making Software: What Reall...
Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
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Andy Oram

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Measure What Matters
Measure What Matters
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John Doerr

3.98 avg rating — 37,076 ratings
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Turn the Ship Around!: A Tr...
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
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L. David Marquet (Goodreads Author)

4.23 avg rating — 21,062 ratings
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Essential Scrum: A Practica...
Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
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Kenneth S. Rubin (Goodreads Author)

4.15 avg rating — 1,647 ratings
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The Lean Startup
The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries (Goodreads Author)

4.11 avg rating — 362,085 ratings
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The Phoenix Project: A Nove...
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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Gene Kim

4.26 avg rating — 49,643 ratings
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The Principles of Product D...
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
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Donald G. Reinertsen

4.18 avg rating — 2,518 ratings
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Goldratt's Theory of Constr...
Goldratt's Theory of Constraints: A Systems Approach to Continuous Improvement
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H. William Dettmer

4.04 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Starting to Unit Test: Not ...
Starting to Unit Test: Not as Hard as You Think
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Erik Dietrich

4.27 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Working Effectively with Le...
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Michael C. Feathers (Goodreads Author)

4.14 avg rating — 4,672 ratings
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Working Effectively with Un...
Working Effectively with Unit Tests
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Jay Fields (Goodreads Author)

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Data Analysis with Open Sou...
Data Analysis with Open Source Tools: A Hands-On Guide for Programmers and Data Scientists
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Philipp K. Janert

4.07 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Statistics for Dummies
Statistics for Dummies
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Deborah J. Rumsey

3.67 avg rating — 665 ratings
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Statistics II for Dummies
Statistics II for Dummies
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Deborah J. Rumsey

3.83 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisi...
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)

4.24 avg rating — 30,582 ratings
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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: T...
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)

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