Reading leadership books can be highly beneficial for anyone who is looking to improve their leadership skills, gain new perspectives on management practices, and enhance their decision-making abilities.
Some books that I am currently reading or have read.
Books Read By Iain White
- I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else’s Maze by Deepak Malhotra
- Finding Balance in a Digital World by Doreen Dodgen-Magee
- Link Building Strategies for SEO by Warren Mori
- Take the Long View by Eric Ries
- Navigating Bias at Work by Meara Habashi
- Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time: How Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business by Fortune Magazine
- Leadership is an Art by Max De Pree
- The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital by Rob Walling
- Competing with Unicorns: How the World’s Best Companies Ship Software and Work Differently by Jonathan Rasmusson
- Demystifying IT: The Language of IT for the CEO by Bhopi Dhall, Saurajit Kanungo
- Project Myopia: Why Projects Damage Software #NoProjects by Allan Kelly
- Overcoming Imposter Syndrome by Kelly Vincent
- Z.E.O.: How to Get A(Head) in Business by Scott Kenemore
- CIO Survival Guide: The Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Information Officer by Karl D. Schubert
- CTO Excellence in 100 Days: Becoming the Leader Your Company Deserves by Etienne de Bruin
- 12 Principles of Project Management: The Time Machine Tale: A PMP® and CAPM® Exam Study Aid by Phill Akinwale
- The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book by Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves
- The Race by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Robert E. Fox
- Real-World Kanban: Do Less, Accomplish More with Lean Thinking by Mattias Skarin
- A Little Book About Requirements and User Stories by Allan Kelly
- Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions: A Catologue of Modern Engineering Paradigms by Peter Degrace, Leslie Hulet Stahl
- The Clean Architecture in PHP by Kristopher Wilson
- Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors by Patrick Lencioni
- The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni
- Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert C. Martin
- The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues by Patrick Lencioni
- System Design Interview – An insider’s guide by Alex Xu
- SDLC 100 Success Secrets: 100 Most asked Questions by Jeremy Lewis
- Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Patrick Lencioni
- Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services by Jon Yablonski
- The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable by Patrick M. Lencioni
- The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
- Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators by Patrick Lencioni
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
- Rework by David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried
- A Gentle Introduction to Lean Software Development by Stephen Haunts
- Web3 by Harvard Business Review
- The Dip: A little Book That Teaches You When To Quit (And When to Stick) by Seth Godin
- Winning the Zero Moment of Truth – ZMOT by Jim Lecinski
- I’m on LinkedIn Now What???: A Guide to Getting the Most Out of LinkedIn by Jason Alba
- Essential Scrum: A Pratical Guide To The Most Popular Agile Process by Kenneth S. Rubin
- Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance – A Business Novel by Dee Jacob
- Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley
- Clean Agile: Back to Basics by Robert C. Martin
- Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems by Ryan Ripley, Todd Miller
- Agile Leadership Toolkit: Learning to Thrive with Self-Managing Teams by Peter Koning
- The Professional Agile Leader: The Leader’s Journey Toward Growing Mature Agile Teams and Organizations by Kurt Bittner, Laurens Bonnema, Ron Eringa
- What is this thing called THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS and how should it be implemented? by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
- The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results by Graham Waller, Karen Rubenstrunk, George Hallenbeck
- The Wolf In CIO’s Clothing: a Machiavellian strategy for successful IT leadership by Tina Nunno
- PRINCE2 Agile An Implementation Pocket Guide: Step-by-step advice for every Project Type by Jamie Lynn Cooke
- Goldratt’s Rules of Flow: The Principles of The Goal Applied to Projects by Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag
- The Choice By Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Efrat Goldratt
- Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
- The Adventures of an IT Leader by Robert D. Austin, Shannon O’Donnell, Richard L. Nolan
- Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT by Martha Heller
- Confessions of a Successful CIO: How the Best CIOs Tackle Their Toughest Business Challenges by Dan Roberts, Brian Watson
- Agile Project Management With Scrum by Ken Schwaber
- Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t by Jim Collins
- First, Break All the Rules: What the world’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Jim Harter
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
- First Principles in Scrum by Jeff Sutherland
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership: Follow Them And People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell
- 2 Second Lean: How to Grow People and Build a Fun Lean Culture at Work & at Home by Paul A. Akers
- Software in 30 Days: How Agile Managers Beat the Odds, Delight Their Customers, and Leave Competitors in the Dust by Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Leif Babin and Jocko Willink
- Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee
- How to Talk to Anybody, Anytime, Anywhere: 3 Steps to Make Instant Connections by Chris Widener
- Gutenberg the Geek by Jeff Jarvis
- Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking: What You Really Need to Know to Build High-Performing Digital Product Teams by Jeff Gothelf
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- The CIO Paradox by Martha Heller
- Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman
- Modern CTO by Joel Beasley
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- Making Work Visible by Dominica DeGrandis
- Agile Leadership: Secret Practices and Tips for Successful Agile Leader by Alex Campbell
- What It Means to Be a Courageous Leader by Minda Harts
- Managing Teams From Gen-Z to Boomer by Jennifer Romolini
- Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning by Chip R. Bell, Marshall Goldsmith
- Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility by Jonathan Smart
- The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael Watkins
- The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
- Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
- Innovative Teams by Harvard Business Review
- Creating Business Plans by Harvard Business Review
- Finance Basics by Harvard Business Review
- Getting Work Done by Harvard Business Review
- Managing Time by Harvard Business Review
- Running Meetings by Harvard Business Review
- Delegating Work by Harvard Business Review
- Innovative Teams by Harvard Business Review
- Presentations by Harvard Business Review
- Managing Up by Harvard Business Review
- Giving Effective Feedback by Harvard Business Review
- Managing Projects by Harvard Business Review
- How a Branding Mindset Boosts Your Career by Kanika Tolver
- Building Trust to Build a Network by Tiffany Pham
- The Productive Power of Lists by Paula Rizzo
- How to Make Inclusive Decisions as a Team by Piper Anderson
- How to Build a Winning Team by Jay Wright
- Three Tools for Tackling Tough Conversations by Phil M. Jones
- The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow by Mark Miller
- The Most Successful Small Business in The World by Michael Gerber
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
- Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom by Robert Kiosaki
- Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t, Rockefeller Habits 2.0 by Verne Harnish
- The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions by Mary & Tom Poppendleck
- Leading Lean Software Development: Results are not the Point by Mary & Tom Poppendleck
- Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary & Tom Poppendieck
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary & Tom Poppendleck
- The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production – Toyota’s Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos
- Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ohno
- Out Of The Crisis by W Edwards Deming
- The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education by W Edwards Deming
- Isn’t It Obvious: Retailing and the Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Critical Chain: Project Management and the Theory of Constraints By Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- It’s Not Luck: Marketing, Production, and the Theory of Constraints by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Beyond the Goal: Theory of Constraints By Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants By Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
- The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim
- The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren
- Beyond The Phoenix Project: The Origins and Evolution of DevOps by Gene Kim, John Willis
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
- The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Andy Stanley
- Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
- The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the Gang of Four
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar Musings on Linux and Open Source by Eric S. Raymond
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Timothy Lister, Tom DeMarco
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition by Fred Brooks
- Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation by Wess Roberts, Bill Ross
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language by Martin Fowler
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
- Clean Code: A Handbook Of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin
- Beginning JSP Web Development by John Timney, Meeraj Moidoo Kunnumpurath, Romin Irani
- Professional Apache Tomcat by Ben Galbraith, Allan Liska, Amit Bakore
- Professional ASP.Net 2.0 by Farhan Muhammad, Srinivasa Sivakumar, Scott Hanselman
- Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 by John Kauffman, Brian Francis, Jon Duckett
- Visual Basic.Net by Example by Gabriel Oancea and Robert P. Donald
- JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook by Danny Goodman
- Professional Apache by Peter Wainwright
- PostgreSQL Developer’s Handbook by Ewald Geschwinde
- Beginning Visual Basic 6 by Peter Wright
- Visual Basic for DOS Programming by Douglas Hergert
- Programming Perl by Tom Christiansen
- JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
- JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan
- Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites by Robin Nixon
- Programming PHP: Creating Dynamic Web Pages by Kevin Tatroe, Peter MacIntyre, Rasmus Lerdorf
- HTML & XHTML by Chuck Musciano
- Teach Yourself CGI Programming in a Week by Rafe Colburn
- Windows Graphics Programming with Borland C++ by Loren Heiny
- Teach Yourself Borland C++ in 21 Days by Craig Arnush
- Borland C++ Developer’s Bible by Mark Peterson
- XML for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro
- Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours by Joseph Schmuller
- Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days by Greg Perry and Leam
- Teach Yourself Delphi 3 in 14 Days by Steve Grobman, Dan Osier, Steve Batson
- Advanced Turbo Pascal: Programming & Techniques by Herbert Schildt
- Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours by Rogers Cadenhead
- Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days by Jesse Liberty
- Dynamic HTML by Danny Goodman
- Teach Yourself ColdFusion in 21 Days by Charles Mohnike
- Turbo C/C++: The Complete Reference by Herbert Schildt
- The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
- DHTML and CSS Advanced by Jason Cranford Teague
- DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web by Jason Cranfo Teague
- Peter Norton’s Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC by John Socha and Peter Norton
- The New Peter Norton Programmer’s Guide to the IBM PC and PS/2: The Ultimate Reference to the Entire Family of IBM Personal Computers by Richard Wilton and Peter Norton
- The Vienna Development Method: The Meta-Language by Dines Bjørner, Cliff B. Jones
- Elementary Pascal, Learning to Program Your Computer in Pascal with Sherlock Holmes by Henry Ledgard, Andrew Singer
- Interfacing and Robotics on the BBC Micro by Ray Bradley
- Advanced Programming Techniques for the BBC Micro by Jim McGregor, Alan Watt
- Advanced Machine Code Techniques for the BBC Micro by A.P Sephenson, D.J Stephenson
- A Concise Introduction to the Language of BBC BASIC by T. J. E. Murphy