Steve Sitton
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Currently reading:
Better Thinking for Better Results
by Cathy Lasher
Books I’ve read:
The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
by Richard Rumelt
Thinking in Systems
by Donella Meadows
The Coach’s Survival Guide
by Kim Morgan
Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide
by Jonathan Passmore, Tracy Sinclair
Coaching for Performance, 6th edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership
by Sir John Whitmore, Tiffany Gaskell
The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever
by Michael Bungay Stanier
The Coach’s Casebook: Mastering the twelve traits that trap us
by Geoff Watts, Kim Morgan
Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
by Nancy Kline
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance: Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround
by Louis Gerstner
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
by Will Larson
Grit: Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success
by Angela Duckworth
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters
by Richard Rumelt
How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams To Do The Best Work of Their Lives
by Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian, Helen Kupp
Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
by Dr Carol Dweck
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
by Ryan Singer
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
by Yvon Chouinard, Naomi Klein
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
by Wickman, Gino
Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
by Eric Barker
What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
No Rules Rules Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Remote Team Interactions Workbook: Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working
by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers
by Fred Reichheld, Darci Darnell, Maureen Burns
All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results
by Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton
The Effective Hiring Manager
by Mark Horstman
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
by Marty Cagan
4 Disciplines of Execution: Getting Strategy Done
by Sean Covey
Powerful (Intl): Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
by Patty McCord
The Management Playbook
by Brandon Allen
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
by Adam Grant
Who: The A Method for Hiring
by Geoff Smart, Randy Street
Dichotomy of Leadership, The: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
by Jocko Willink
Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions
by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The Infinite Game: How great Businesses Achieve Long-Lasting Success
by Simon Sinek
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone
by Liz Wiseman
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
The Four Agreements: Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
by Don Miguel Ruiz, Janet Mills
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way Your Lead Forever
by Michael Bungay Stanier
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
by Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Digital Disruption, Redshirts, and Overthrowing the Ancient Powerful Order: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
by Gene Kim
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Emotional Intelligence for the Modern Leader: A Guide to Cultivating Effective Leadership and Organizations
by Christopher D Connors
Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces
by Karen Catlin, Sally McGraw
Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and Devops: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by General Stanley McChrystal, David Silverman, Tantum Collins, Chris Fussell
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
by Nancy Koehn
The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher’s Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
by William B. Irvine
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people
by Aditya Bhargava
Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
by Edgar H Schein
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
by John Doerr
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
by Julie Zhuo
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
by Brené Brown
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
by Patrick M. Lencioni
A Seat at the Table: It Leadership in the Age of Agility
by Mark Schwartz
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert B Cialdini PhD
Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Workflow
by Dominica Degrandis
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
by Daniel H. Pink
The Score Takes Care Of Itself
by Bill Walsh
High Output Management
by Andrew Grove
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by Daniel Coyle
How to Develop Self-confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking
by Dale Carnegie
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
by Laszlo Bock
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
Leadership and the One Minute Manager
by Kenneth Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, Drea Zigarmi
The New One Minute Manager
by Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
The Manager`s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth & Change
by Camille Fournier
Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
by Kim Scott
Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron Mcmillan, Al Switzler
Stronger Together: How Great Teams Work
by Simon Hartley
Joy, Inc: How We Built a Workplace People Love
by Richard Sheridan
The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
by Patrick M. Lencioni
Talking with Tech Leads: From Novices to Practitioners
by Patrick Kua
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration
by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
The Devops Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
by Robert C. Martin
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by Brad Stone
Leading Lean Software Development: Results are Not the Point
by Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success
by Dave Zwieback
Building Software Teams: Ten Best Practices for Effective Software Development
by Joost Visser, Sylvan Rigal, Gijs Wijnholds, Zeeger Lubsen
The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
Brand Is a Four Letter Word: Positioning and the Real Art of Marketing
by Austin McGhie
How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules
by L. David Marquet
First Break All the Rules
by Marcus Buckingham
Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
by Jeff Sussna
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink
Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban
by Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene
The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece
by Ron Jeffries
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
by Michael T. Nygard
the human operating system: an owner’s manual
by Senn Delaney
Leading Snowflakes: The Engineering Manager Handbook
by Oren Ellenbogen
Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O’Reilly
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Patrick M. Lencioni
What I’ve Learned From Failure: A quarter-century of experience shipping software, distilled into fixnum bittersweet essays
by Reg “raganwald” Braithwaite
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Notes to a Software Team Leader
by Roy Osherove
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
by Michael Lopp<
Soft Skills: The software developer’s life manual
by John Sonmez
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
by Jez Humble & David Farley
Build Quality In: Continuous Delivery and DevOps experience reports
by Steve Smith & Matthew Skelton
Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics)
by Peter F. Drucker
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
by Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman