 | Leading Change by John P. Kotter
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $4.25 Perhaps one of the most compelling statements of how to effect change within an organization. Fascinating and insightful.
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 | The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) by Peter F. Drucker
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.84 Manage yourself first - if you are more effective with your time, your products will be more effective.
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 | Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $1.77 Everything is a negotiation. Learn to establish objective standards and achieve creative, collaborative solutions even in combative environments.
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 | Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay (3rd Edition) by Beverly Kaye
Buy used from: $1.86 Like it or not, you are fully a product of your team. Without them you're nothing. Figure out how to make them happy and keep them. This is not a book on how to fire people.
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 | Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition) by Tom DeMarco
Buy used from: $67.25 Face it - you run an engineering team. Do what Tom says if you want to be even remotely good at it.
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 | The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks
Buy new: $26.15 / Used from: $13.15 More on how to work with software engineers. Remember, you're a servant - this book will help you understand how to serve your customers well.
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 | The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $10.34 All teams are startups. This book is pretty weak overall, but has a few nuggets, like focusing on a mantra and getting your mission right.
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 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $8.55 Everything you do is a process. This is a light read, and it's fun, so you can follow the journey of an ops manager and learn from his experience as he learns how to optimize his business.
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 | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.99 Quantitative analysis is the hallmark of our profession; Michael tells a funny, compelling story of how a GM brought quantitative rigor the A's and made them one of baseball's most successful teams. Try to do what he did - only with less stress in the gym.
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 | Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $6.08 All of our products are infants. In order to reach their strong growth period, they need to 'cross the chasm.' Moore's book discusses this phenomenon.
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 | The Soul Of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.46 Tracy won a Pulitzer for this book, which is one of the most enlightening, compelling portraits of an engineering organization that I have ever read. Fascinating read.
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 | The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.46 Surowiecki discusses how groups of people answer hard questions accurately and quickly. He explores the tragedy of the commons. This is germain to the work we do because much of what we produce is heavily influenced by emerging communities of customers.
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $9.11 / Used from: $4.38 Gladwell's debut is a wonderful study of social science and this is incredibly apropos of web applications.
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 | Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.75 Brainstorm and critical analysis are frequently at odds - de Bono explores this and provides a framework for understanding these processes. If you use them with your team, you'll find that you're innovating more frequently.
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 | A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative by Roger von Oech
Buy new: $11.04 / Used from: $5.97 Suggested by Ariel, on creativity.
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