Cool, this looks nice!<p>I'm currently mentoring new tech leads, and I'm using books heavily as a tool. I usually break a book into two or three parts which we discuss and try to apply to our every-day problems. It works quite well.<p>However the biggest challenge I had wasn't finding good leadership books, but narrowing my list of books down.<p>I currently read with my mentees:<p>- The Managers Path<p>- Elastic Leadership<p>- Simply Said: Communicating Better at Work and Beyond<p>- Nonviolent communication<p>"Simply Said" is a good example for my struggle: I picked it because I needed a single book that covers written communication, presentations, body language, focus on the needs of the person communicated to etc.<p>There are surely better books for each topic individually, but picking a single one was tough!
I've read and can highly recommend the following three from the leadership list:<p>1. Turn The Ship Around: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules<p>2. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter<p>3. Principles: Life and Work
This is a wonderfully curated resource! Thank’s for putting it together.<p>As you look to put things into practice from the resources you find here, I’d love to offer myself up to help in your learning journey. I run a 100% free mentoring service for live 1:1 conversations with managers and leaders. In the past 12 months, I’ve met with over 100 managers, and I’ve held over 150 sessions. I do sessions 5 days a week, and I’ve met truly wonderful people from this community through this service project.<p><a href="https://freemanagermentor.com" rel="nofollow">https://freemanagermentor.com</a><p>Hope to talk with you soon!
This is a great list.<p>Missing from the Architecture & System Design list is Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data Intensive Application, IMO the best modern book on systems / scalability.
I am not familiar with the books in most of the categories however, I can say with confidence that the "Startup Books" section lacks a lot of books for leadership, let alone for leader engineers.