Personal

I get asked regularly for advice on product and technology books worth reading. While this is all quite personal, there are a few books that I would advise any Product Manager or Product leader to read. Here are six of them in random order:

1. Talk Like TED, through which you gain insights on selling your ideas persuasively to your internal and external stakeholders.
2. Blue Ocean Strategy teaches you about finding or creating an uncontested market space that will make competition irrelevant.
3. Our Iceberg Is Melting is all about change management. Any leader must understand what it takes to generate momentum in their organization.
4. The Pyramid Principle teaches you to bring logic to your writing and presentation skills. This is essential when your role asks you to present to C-level executives regularly.
5. Transformed helps you understand what it takes to become a product-led organization to deliver game-changing tech products.
6. Six Simple Rules is all about managing complexity without making things complicated. Reducing complexity is today’s management challenge, as corporations have been adding complexity through business processes, organizational models, and software products for the past two decades.