This is a dynamic list of books I found useful and helpful on different topics related to product management.
On building teams
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- High Output Management
- Score Takes Care Of Itself
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
- Lying
On strategy and building products
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
- Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
- One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making
- Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
- Zero to One
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
- Thinking in Systems
- Frankenstein
On culture
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
- That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
- What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
On self-improvement
- Principles: Life and Work
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
On writing
On design
- The Design of Everyday Things
- A Pattern Language
- Universal Principles of Design
- Super Normal
- Living with Complexity
- Creativity, Inc.
- Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
- The Elements of Typographic Style
On psychology and human behavior
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
- The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress
- The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It