Although I know self help books are of little value, but wondering if any author has really nailed the topic? Would be even be better if the book is specific to tech leadership.
Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
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#2Extreme Ownership is an excellent book on the topic (or so peoole tell me, I started reading it today actually).
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#3Try "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier.
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#4For leading through tough times - Only the paranoid survive by Andy Grove is great! It was our book of the month in April!
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#5It depends on what your definition of "leadership" is - personally I found "Managing Humans" by Michael Lopp to be really insightful. It's really more a collection of anecdotes than a seminal work on the topic, but I think there's a bunch of good components in understanding team dynamics around technical / software engineering teams.
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#6Extreme Ownership is an excellent book on the topic (or so peoole tell me, I started reading it today actually).
It is. It is also filled with gratuitous disregard for human life and cruelty towards animals. But that's what war is about, and having a book about military leadership without actual examples of conflict would be kind of vacuous.
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#7Not strictly management, but related:”The Trusted Advisor” is a book about consulting. Which is really the same soft skills you would need in leadership positions where you have a lot of domain experience and leadership is more about helping the team make their own tech decisions
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#8"An elegant puzzle", "High output management" and "Behind Closed Doors" have all been useful to me.
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#9It's years since I read it but Gerald Weinberg's Becoming a Technical Leader. The best general book on leadership I've read for a while is Marquet's Turn the Ship Around – great also as an audiobook. I referenced the latter in my own Right to Left: The digital leader's guide to Lean and Agile (arguably a leadership book too)
Re: Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
#10Turn The Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turn-Ship-Around-Building-Breaking/...
HN post about this book recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21662941