Product Management Books
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- Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Product Management in Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century
- The Art of Product Management: Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator
- Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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Goals
- Radical Focus SECOND EDITION: Achieving Your Goals with Objectives and Key Results
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Discovery
- Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research
- It's Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects
- Talking to Humans: Success starts with understanding your customers
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
- The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
- Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
User Stories & Specs
- Intercom on Jobs‑to‑be‑Done
- The Jobs To Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
User Behaviour
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
- The Design Of Everyday Things
- Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Product Market Fit
- The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
- The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth
- The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
Growth
- Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
- Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself (Product-Led Growth Series)
- Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
Strategy/Positioning
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
- Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
- Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It
Commons/Influence
- Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber: Better Collaboration for Better Software
- Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Data
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- Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills
- Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
- Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product Managers
- Tribal Leadership Revised Edition: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
- Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
- High Output Management
- Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't
- The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions, and Results
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
- Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
- The Infinite Game
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings on Authenticity, Connection and Courage
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
- Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
- Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
- Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't