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Question posted on Twitter

For someone with technical leadership responsibilities in a rapidly scaling product company that’s distributed across multiple time zones, what are the top 3 books you think they should read?

My Three

  1. Flow (Donald G. Reinertsen)
  2. Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
  3. Flow (Nonaka, Toyama, Hirata)

Twitterverse

  1. Blitzscaling (Ried Hoffman)
  2. Deep Work (Cal Newport)
  3. Drive (Dan Pink)
  4. Extreme Ownership
  5. Founders at work
  6. Hard facts, dangerous half-truths & total nonsense (Pfeffer & Sutton)
  7. Hard things about hard things
  8. Leadership and Self Deception (The Arbinger Institute)
  9. Remote (37 Signals)
  10. Scaling Lean & Agile Development (Larman, Vodde (+other books by these authors))
  11. Scaling up Excellence (Sutton and Rao)
  12. Software Architecture for Developers vol 1 & 2 (Simon Brown)
  13. Teaming (Amy Edmonson)
  14. The Anatomy of Peace
  15. The business of Belief (Tom Asacker)
  16. The Culture Code (Coyle)
  17. The fifth discipline (Peter Senge)
  18. The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
  19. Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows)
  20. Wardley Maps (Simon Wardley (not a book))
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