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Extreme Ownership https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-eboo... How to Win Friends and Influence People https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People-eboo... The Phoenix Project https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Busine... Don't worry about "tech specific". Core leadership principles are universal. The first two books on the list show the principles, and the mindset you…
Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap and Others Don't The Goal: A process of Continuous Improvement Team of Teams Strategy that Works: Bridging the Stategy to Execution Gap
There isn't a single book that will teach you everything you need to know, but these 5 books taken together will cover nearly everything. The points I suggest paying the most attention to are level 5 leadership, the hedgehog concept, the flywheel concept, Kaizen style continuous improvement, how to organize groups of teams to avoid micromanaging, and how to work with a company culture to make decisions supported by real data that tells you what the most effective decisions would be and how to achieve this by choosing concepts to promote to employees in order to guide their decision making.
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I'm not really following your criticisms on The Phoenix Project... Can you elaborate?
I didn't attempt to make a detailed criticism. Basically, it's the naive application of Goldratt's "The Goal" to IT. People have been trying to model IT processes on manufacturing for decades. Still doesn't work. The opinion of several engineers that I respect very highly who suffered from the author's consulting services makes me discount his work entirely. If you read farther in Goldratt, the sequels to "The Goal",…
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I didn't attempt to make a detailed criticism. Basically, it's the naive application of Goldratt's "The Goal" to IT. People have been trying to model IT processes on manufacturing for decades. Still doesn't work. The opinion of several engineers that I respect very highly who suffered from the author's consulting services makes me discount his work entirely. If you read farther in Goldratt, the sequels to "The Goal",…
Would you mind expanding on how your friends suffered? What went wrong etc. Sounds interesting.
Any of the classic books of the late Jerry Weinberg is full of wisdom. Oldies but goldies. Leanpub has all of them: https://leanpub.com/u/jerryweinberg There's the People Skill bundle: https://leanpub.com/b/peopleskillssoftbutdifficult with the books: Are Your Lights On?, What Did You Say? The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback, Exploring Requirements One, Exploring Requirements Two, Becoming a Change Artist, More…
Thanks for those links, I will check out a number of those. Weird I've never heard about him before, impressive number of books.
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I understand the “why” of leadership very well, but as a high-functioning autistic person, I struggle very much with the “how”, especially around communication. Like - for all possible values of X, if X is what I want someone to do, how do I communicate that so people (a) understand that I want X from them and (b) aren’t offended and understand that it is meant kindly/charitably (which it really is, I often just don’…
This is not a book full of "scripts," but will hopefully help inform future actions: The "Please stop. I've got this." is an action-oriented message that is conveyed before the action. It says "I would like for you to do X because of Y." It is conveyed in an imperative structure, which is used for a command or a request. "Please stop." Conversely, when you say "I was going to get it," it is a declarative message rath…