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- Josh Haines
- @joshhaines
In order of Most Useful to Least Useful.
NOTE
This list below contains primarily books related to work, productivity, and other related topics.
At the bottom, I've included a list in alphabetical order of a couple honorable mentions on unrelated topics that I think are outstanding.
- A Seat at the Table (Mark Schwartz)
- Ask Your Developer (Jeff Lawson)
- Sooner Safer Happier (Jonathan Smart)
- The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy (Mark Schwartz)
- Project to Product (Mik Kersten)
- The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford)
- The Unicorn Project (Gene Kim)
- Working Backwards (Colin Bryar, Bill Carr)
- Multipliers (Liz Wiseman)
- Wiring the Winning Organization (Gene Kim, Steven Spear)
- The Fearless Organization (Amy Edmondson)
- No Rules Rules (Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer)
- The Art of Business Value (Mark Schwartz)
- Deep Work (Cal Newport)
- Hyperfocus (Chris Bailey)
- Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg)
- Fear of Missing Out (Patrick McGinnis)
- Build (Tony Fadell)
- Building a StoryBrand (Dennis Miller)
- Radical Candor (Kim Scott)
- Essentialism (Greg McKeown)
- Turn the Ship Around (L. David Marquet)
- Quit (Annie Duke)
- Measure What Matters (John Doerr)
- The Culture Code (Daniel Coyle)
- Escaping the Build Trap (Melissa Perri)
- The DevOps Handbook (Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick DeBois, John Willis)
- War and Peace and IT (Mark Schwartz)
- Team Topologies (Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais)
- Made to Stick (Chip & Dan Heath)
- The Value Flywheel Effect (David Anderson)
- Making Work Visible (Dominica DeGrandis)
- Accelerate (Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim)
- XLR8 (John Kotter)
- Linchpin (Seth Godin)
- Upstream (Dan Heath)
- Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
- Indistractable (Nir Eyal)
- First, Break All the Rules (Don Clifton, Gallup)
- Supercommunicators (Charles Duhigg)
- Software Architect Elevator (Gregor Hohpe)
- The Icarus Deception (Seth Godin)
- Change (John Kotter)
- Switch (Chip & Dan Heath)
- Range (David Epstein)
- Nudge (Cass Sunstein, Richard Thaler)
- Clean Code (Robert C. Martin)
- Clean Architecture (Robert C. Martin)
- Clean Coder (Robert C. Martin)
- Sharks in the Moat (Phil Martin)
- Decision Quality (Carl Spetzler, Hannah Winter, Jennifer Meyer)
- Tribes (Carl Spetzler, Hannah Winter, Jennifer Meyer)
- Think Again (Adam Grant)
- Only the Paranoid Survive (Andrew Grove)
- Make Space to Lead (Tutti Taygerly)
- Understanding Software (Max Kanat-Alexander)
- Talking to Strangers (Malcolm Gladwell)
- The Fiefdom Syndrome (Robert Herbold)
- DevOps for the Modern Enterprise (Mirco Hering)
- The Servant (James Hunter)
- The Dip (Seth Godin)
- Mindset (Carol Dweck)
- How to Have Impossible Conversations (Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay)
- Finite and Infinite Games (James Carse)
- Container Security (Liz Rice, O'Reilly)
- The Lean Startup (Eric Reis)
- The Startup Way (Eric Reis)
- The Innovator's Dilemma (Clayton Christensen)
- Your Next Five Moves (Patrick Bet-David)
- The Digital Mindset (Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley)
Honorable Mentions
- Anxious Generation (Jonathan Haidt)
- Breath (James Nestor)