- Anticipate:The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success by Ronald Brown
- The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Fox Cabane
- Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble and David Farley
- Customer Centric Selling by Michael Bosworth and John Holland
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win by Steve Blank
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover
- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
- Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
- Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch and John Byrne
- Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O'Reilly
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World's Best Companies by Robert Miller, Stephen Heiman, and Tao Tuleja
- Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler
- Rework by Jason Freid and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart by Ian Ayres
- Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Going From Introverted Engineer to CEO - The Recommended Reading List
Stephane Kasriel is the CEO of Upwork - a firm that matches freelancers with employers. He has an article in the current issue of Harvard Business Review - How I Did It: Upwork's CEO on How an Introverted Engineer Learned to Lead. The article is fascinating in describing his journey. Mr. Kasriel read widely along the path to CEO - he cited the following books that he read in preparing for his leadership role.
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