Design
Books
- The Design of Everyday Things
- About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
- The Elements of User Experience
- Designing Web Interfaces
- A Project Guide to UX Design
- Subject To Change
- Smashing UX Design
- Information Architecture
- Communicating Design
- Articulating Design Decisions
- Seductive Interaction Design
- Designing Together
- 100 Things: Every Designer Needs to Know About People
- Sketching User Experiences
- Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook
- Service Design
- Prototyping
- Don’t Make Me Think
- Designing Interfaces
- UX Strategy
- The User Experience Team of One
- Lean UX
- Designing with the Mind in Mind
- Web Form Design
- Interviewing Users
- Measuring the User Experience
- Mental Models
- The UX Book
- Designing for the Digital Age
- Microinteractions
- Designing for Interaction
- Observing the User Experience
- The Sketchnote Handbook
- Handbook of Usability Testing
- Practical Empathy
Management
Books
- High Output Management
- The One Minute Manager
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- counterpoint: Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
- The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
- First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- Rework
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
- Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Though Conversations. Whole Hearts.
- Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
- Redesigning Leadership
Articles
- What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP
- Awesome Leadership and Management
- General Management Syllabus
- 101 Questions to Ask in One on Ones
- Any Julie Zhuo article
- Any Signal vs Noise Article
Communication
Books
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
- The Pyramid Principle
- Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?"
- Non Violent Communication: A language of life
Time Management & Productivity
Books
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- Inbox Freedom: The Zen Master’s Guide to Tackling Your Email and Work
- Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
- Triggers: Creating Behaviours that Lasts
Articles
- The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
- 70% of Time Could Be Used Better - How the Best CEOs Get the Most Out of Every Day
Self Management / Career
Books
- Principles: Life and Work
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
- Designing Your Life
- Mastery
- Linchpin
- The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter
- The Laws of Simplicity
Articles
- How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
- The Cook and the Chef: Elon Musk's Secret Sauce
- Guide to Career Planning
- Love
- Ikigai: How to Find Professional Success
Innovation
- Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
- Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
- The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
- Crossing the Chasm
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing
- Zero to One
- The Brand Gap: How to bridge the distance between business strategy and design