- Leadership. By the numbers., Michael Lopp, The Lead Developer UK 2016
- How do you get an engineering team to eat their vegetables, Duretti Hirpa, The Lead Developer UK 2016
- Rebooting Culture, Camille Fournier, The Lead Developer UK 2016 (Wait for 2017 Lead Developer NYC version of this talk – it's quite a bit better)
- How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Leading Snowflakes, Oren Ellenbogen
- The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker
- Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres
- The Little Guide to Empathetic Technical Leadership, Alex Harms
- Managing Distributed Teams, blog post series by Glenn Vanderburg and Maria Gutierrez
- Software Lead Weekly, weekly email list curated by Oren Ellenbogen