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Jan 15 11 tweets 6 min read
After talking about the topics that classic #prodmgmt books might not cover…

Here are 10 non-product management books that you recommended for PMs, including my personal favorites.



🧵📚 (1/11)
The Advantage by Patrick M. Lencioni

Recommended by @TomBergman

amazon.com/Advantage-Orga…

(2/11)
7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results by Esther Derby

Recommended by @Velocity1003

amazon.com/Rules-Positive…

(3/11)
Also a timeless classic, How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie @DaleCarnegie

Recommended by @Velocity1003

amazon.com/How-Win-Friend…

(4/11)
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Joseph Grenny

Recommended by @TomBergman

amazon.com/Crucial-Conver…

(5/11)
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable also by Patrick M. Lencioni

This book shows what are the different challenges that a team can face internally and recommends solutions for solving them. Very eye-opening.

amazon.com/Five-Dysfuncti…

(6/11)
Outliers: The Story of Success from Malcolm Gladwell

This is one of my favorite books. It shares different stories of success and highlights the role of the combination of luck, environment, and talent.

amazon.com/Outliers-Story…

(7/11)
Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz

This is the book that every PM should read! It gives a great overview of using data in decision making and it consists of a collection of metrics for different business models.

amazon.com/Lean-Analytics…

(8/11)
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez @CCriadoPerez

Besides the topic itself, I really like this book because it shows how our biases shape the data and then how that data shapes our biases.

amazon.com/Invisible-Wome…

(9/11)
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates @melindagates

This book teaches about life, empathy, biases - and it shows that the solution to a problem might be very different from what you first think.

amazon.com/Moment-Lift-Em…

(10/11)
+1, which is a little bit of a product book but a highly practical one.

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product by @jeffpatton

amazon.com/User-Story-Map…

(11/11)

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Jan 15
This is why I gave up reading product management books years ago. They all define a role that doesn’t exist, only in theories, our daily job is far away from that.

#prodmgmt
I felt that all these books put pressure on us - “you can change the culture", "you should show them how to do this right”.

But being good in product and being able to drive organisational changes are 2 very different things.
I realized this difference when I was a freelance PM for a while. I was involved in projects which had nothing to do with thinking about the product - we focused on how to transform the product organisation in order to be able to build the right product.
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