1. Modern CTO
Author: Joel Beasley
2. Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering ManagerYou’ve got to be able to communicate in life, it’s enormously important. Schools, to some extent, under emphasize that. If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential.” – Joel Beasley
Author: Michael Lopp
3. The Lean StartupMy definition of a great manager is someone with whom you can make a connection no matter where you sit in the organization chart.” – Michael Lopp
Author: Eric Ries
“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.” – Eric Ries
4. The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Author: Ben Horowitz
5. The CTO ¦ CIO Bible: The Mission Objectives Strategies and Tactics Needed To Be a Super Successful CTO“Hard things are hard because there are no easy answers or recipes. They are hard because your emotions are at odds with your logic. They are hard because you don’t know the answer and you cannot ask for help without showing weakness.”– Ben Horowitz
Author: Rorie Devine
6. Leading Exponential Change: Go Beyond Agile and Scrum to Run Even Better Business Transformations“If you think about all of the great people you’ve worked with in the past, some of the things that they probably have in common are that they are passionate about what they do, they have energy, and they bring urgency.” – Rorie Devine
Author: Erich R. Bühler
"It is no longer enough to understand frameworks, functionalities, principles, techniques, or new ways to manage people. We must also understand deeper factors of organisational change and learn how these can help entire companies to improve.” – Erich R. Bühler
7. Rework
Authors: Jason Fried and David Hansson
"Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way” – Jason Fried