Recommended Books

Best books on getting started in Product Management

1. Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen
2. Intercom on Product Management by Intercom
3. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
4. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
5. Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology by Gayle Laakmann McDowell & Jackie Bavaro

Best books on the mindset of Product Management

1. Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield
2. The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
3. Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrilow
4. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
5. This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin
6. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
7. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Best books on the disciplines of Product Management

1. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
2. Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Product and Build Successful Teams by Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, Nate Walkingshaw
3. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
4. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
5. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
6. The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen
7. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising by Ryan Holiday
8. Read This Before Our Next Meeting: How We Can Get More Done by Al Pittampalli

Best books on Product Leadership

1. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
2. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
3. High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
4. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal
5. Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
6. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
7. EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches by Dave Ramsey
8. Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

Best books on personal growth

1. How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen
2. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
3. Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
4. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work by Timothy Keller
5. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
6. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
7. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey
8. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin