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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as manager)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,239 ratings — published 2019
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as manager)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,543 ratings — published 2017
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as manager)
avg rating 4.11 — 141,616 ratings — published 2002
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as manager)
avg rating 3.85 — 38,618 ratings — published 2003
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as manager)
avg rating 4.05 — 59,394 ratings — published 2017
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as manager)
avg rating 3.94 — 41,748 ratings — published 1998
The One Minute Manager (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as manager)
avg rating 3.95 — 148,622 ratings — published 1981
High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as manager)
avg rating 4.30 — 21,800 ratings — published 1983
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as manager)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,174,444 ratings — published 1936
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as manager)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,950 ratings — published 2019
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as manager)
avg rating 4.25 — 50,786 ratings — published 2013
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as manager)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,323 ratings — published 2007
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as manager)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,211 ratings — published 2013
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as manager)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,223 ratings — published
The Effective Manager (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as manager)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,271 ratings — published 2016
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as manager)
avg rating 4.19 — 112,466 ratings — published 2014
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as manager)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,961 ratings — published 1987
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,177 ratings — published 2022
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,623 ratings — published 2019
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,590 ratings — published 2017
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.10 — 276,229 ratings — published 2009
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,075 ratings — published 2002
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,056 ratings — published 1999
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,216 ratings — published 1975
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 3.99 — 16,791 ratings — published 2010
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.12 — 303,635 ratings — published 2001
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.08 — 38,098 ratings — published 1966
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as manager)
avg rating 4.16 — 834,498 ratings — published 1989
The First-time Manager (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as manager)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,959 ratings — published 1978
Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as manager)
avg rating 4.34 — 605 ratings — published 2020
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manager)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,958 ratings — published 2015
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as manager)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,363 ratings — published 2017
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as manager)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,634 ratings — published 2008
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manager)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,212 ratings — published 2018
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as manager)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,162 ratings — published 2016
Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as manager)
avg rating 3.73 — 368 ratings — published 2012
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,154 ratings — published
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,478 ratings — published 2014
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 4.05 — 10,175 ratings — published 2014
HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 4.04 — 853 ratings — published
Resilient Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 4.35 — 843 ratings — published
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,942 ratings — published 2015
Who: The A Method for Hiring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,722 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 4.17 — 604,335 ratings — published 2011
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,676 ratings — published 2009
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manager)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,630 ratings — published 2002
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manager)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,139 ratings — published 1990
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manager)
avg rating 4.27 — 33,936 ratings — published 2020
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manager)
avg rating 4.12 — 152,874 ratings — published 2021
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manager)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,035 ratings — published 2008
“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them.”
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