Sources
This is everything I've read that shapes how I think about leadership, systems, and teams. It's not a recommended reading list; that's what pathways are for. This is the complete catalogue. If I reference something in a post or pathway, it's here.
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| Title | Author | Type | First read | Category | Links | Referenced in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow | Dominica DeGrandis | Book | June 2025 | Tech Teams and Product Management | itrevolution.comStep 4 of Understanding Teams | When Work Is Invisible: The Hidden Cost of What You Can't See,Making Work Visible - The Five Thieves of Time |
| Three Signs of a Miserable Job | Patrick Lencioni | Book | January 2022 | Personal Development | tablegroup.comyoutu.beStep 5 of Understanding Teams | Dysfunction From the Ground Up,Breaking the Spiral: Rebuilding a Team From 54% Attrition |
| Vibe Coding | Gene Kim, Steve Yegge | Book | December 2025 | Tech Teams and Product Management | itrevolution.comStep 2 of Working Effectively With AI | What They Don't Tell You About Building With AI,From Chatbot Frustration to Building Production Tools |
| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | Book | July 2020 | Personal Development | — | Le Grand Plan: Replacing the Ship While Sailing It |
| Always Be Quitting | Julio Merino | Blog | August 2021 | Leadership, Career Development | jmmv.dev | From 'Always Be Quitting' to 'Always Be Teaching' |
| Extreme Ownership - How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win | Jocko Willink, Leif Babin | Book | August 2023 | Business Theory and Strategy | youtu.be | Bridging the Gap: Learning Product Ownership |
| The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni | Book | February 2020 | People and Teams | tablegroup.comyoutube.comStep 2 of Understanding Teams | Dysfunction From the Ground Up |
| How Big Things Get Done | Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner | Book | August 2024 | Goal Setting, Project Management | dangardner.ca | The £10M Production Facility That Proved We Could Compete |
| The Ideal Team Player | Patrick Lencioni | Book | May 2020 | People and Teams | tablegroup.comyoutube.com | Hiring Isn't an Event, It's a System |
| Measure What Matters | John Doerr | Book | January 2021 | Goal Setting, Project Management | whatmatters.comyoutube.com | Breaking the Spiral: Rebuilding a Team From 54% Attrition |
| No Rules Rules | Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer | Book | June 2021 | People and Teams | — | Hiring Isn't an Event, It's a System |
| The Phoenix Project - A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win | Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford | Book | June 2025 | Tech Teams and Product Management | itrevolution.comStep 3 of Working Effectively With AI | Deploying to Production: What 16 Hours and a Sickness Bug Taught Me |
| Radical Candor | Kim Scott | Book | November 2021 | Communication | radicalcandor.comyoutube.comStep 1 of Understanding Teams | Care Personally, Challenge Directly: Learning Radical Candor the Hard Way |
| A Seat at the Table | Mark Schwartz | Book | October 2025 | Tech Teams and Product Management | itrevolution.com | Le Grand Plan: Replacing the Ship While Sailing It |
| The Unicorn Project - A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data | Gene Kim | Book | July 2025 | Tech Teams and Product Management | itrevolution.comStep 5 of Working Effectively With AI | Care Personally, Challenge Directly: Learning Radical Candor the Hard Way |
| The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) | Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling | Book | January 2021 | Goal Setting, Project Management | franklincovey.com | — |
| The 5 AM Club | Robin Sharma | Book | January 2024 | Personal Development | robinsharma.com | — |
| The 6 Types of Working Genius - A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team | Patrick Lencioni | Book | March 2023 | Personal Development | workinggenius.comvimeo.com | — |
| 8 Lessons on Building a Company People Enjoy Working For | Patty McCord | Talk | — | People and Teams | youtube.com | — |
| Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations | Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim | Book | May 2026 | Tech Teams and Product Management | itrevolution.com | — |
| Agile Conversations - Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture | Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick | Book | October 2023 | Tech Teams and Product Management | itrevolution.com | — |
| Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell | Henrik Kniberg | Video | — | Tech Teams and Product Management | youtube.comStep 5 of Getting Started with Agile & Product Thinking | — |
| Agile vs Waterfall: Waterfall Wins! | Development That Pays | Video | — | Tech Teams and Product Management | youtube.comStep 4 of Getting Started with Agile & Product Thinking | — |
| Alchemy | Rory Sutherland | Book | September 2021 | Enjoyment | youtube.com | — |
| All In | Mike Michalowicz | Book | November 2025 | Business Theory and Strategy | mikemichalowicz.comyoutu.be | — |
| The Anti-CEO Playbook | Hamdi Ulukaya | Talk | — | Leadership | ted.com | — |
| Antifragile | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Book | October 2023 | Philosophy | youtu.be | — |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | Book | — | Philosophy | — | — |
| The Asshole Survival Guide - How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt | Robert I. Sutton | Book | May 2024 | Personal Development | youtu.be | — |
| Atomic Habits - Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results | James Clear | Book | April 2023 | Personal Development | jamesclear.comyoutu.be | — |
| The Bed of Procrustes | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Book | November 2024 | Philosophy | bedofprocrustes.com | — |
| Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 | Jim Collins, Bill Lazier | Book | December 2024 | Business Theory and Strategy | jimcollins.com | — |
| Big Potential - Five Secrets of Reaching Higher by Powering Those Around You | Shawn Achor | Book | February 2023 | People and Teams | shawnachor.comyoutu.be | — |
| Black Box Thinking | Matthew Syed | Book | April 2025 | Personal Development | matthewsyed.co.ukyoutu.be | — |
| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Book | September 2022 | Philosophy | — | — |
| Bruce Daisley: No Office Required | Bruce Daisley | Book | March 2021 | People and Teams | makeworkbetter.info | — |
| The Choice Factory | Richard Shotton | Book | December 2023 | Enjoyment | richardshotton.com | — |
| Coaching for Performance | Sir John Whitmore | Book | November 2022 | People and Teams | performanceconsultants.com | — |
| Corporate Rebels Make Work Fun | Joost Minnaar, Pim de Morree | Book | January 2022 | Business Theory and Strategy | corporate-rebels.com | — |
| Critical Chain | Eliyahu M. Goldratt | Book | February 2026 | Business Theory and Strategy, Project Management | toc-goldratt.com | — |
| The Culture Code | Daniel Coyle | Book | February 2026 | People and Teams | danielcoyle.comyoutube.com | — |
| The Daily Stoic - 365 Meditations | Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman | Book | April 2025 | Philosophy | ryanholiday.net | — |
| Deep Work - Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World | Cal Newport | Book | March 2025 | Productivity | calnewport.com | — |
| Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering | Joseph Nguyen | Book | February 2026 | Personal Development, Philosophy | josephnguyen.org | — |
| Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | Daniel H Pink | Book | January 2026 | People and Teams, Leadership | danpink.comStep 6 of Understanding Teams | — |
| An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management | Will Larson | Book | July 2026 | Tech Teams and Product Management | lethain.comyoutube.com | — |
| Escaping the Build Trap - How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value | Melissa Perri | Book | October 2025 | Tech Teams and Product Management | melissaperri.comStep 6 of Getting Started with Agile & Product Thinking | — |
| Find Your Why - A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team | Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker | Book | December 2023 | People and Teams | simonsinek.comyoutu.be | — |
| Fooled by Randomness | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Book | August 2022 | Philosophy | fooledbyrandomness.com | — |
| The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive | Patrick Lencioni | Book | May 2020 | Business Theory and Strategy | tablegroup.com | — |
| Four Thousand Weeks - Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life. Make Your Four Thousand Weeks Count. | Oliver Burkeman | Book | February 2024 | Productivity | oliverburkeman.comyoutu.be | — |
| The Friction Project - How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder | Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao | Book | June 2024 | People and Teams | bobsutton.net | — |
| The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement | Eliyahu M. Goldratt | Book | February 2026 | Business Theory and Strategy, Project Management | tocinstitute.org | — |
| Good Strategy/Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt | Book | July 2026 | Business Theory and Strategy | richardrumelt.comyoutube.com | — |
| Good to Great | Jim Collins | Book | October 2020 | Business Theory and Strategy | jimcollins.com | — |
| Great By Choice | Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen | Book | March 2021 | Business Theory and Strategy | jimcollins.com | — |
| HBR 10 Must Reads Emotional Intelligence | Harvard Business Review | Book | March 2022 | People and Teams | hbr.org | — |
| How to Be a Better Stoic | Massimo Pigliucci | Book | — | Philosophy | — | — |
| How to Get Your Ideas to Spread | Seth Godin | Talk | — | Communication | youtube.com | — |
| How to Outperform | Audible Originals | Talk | October 2020 | Business Theory and Strategy | audible.co.uk | — |
| How to Talk to AI (And How Not To) | Jamie Bartlett | Book | August 2026 | Tech Teams and Product Management | penguin.co.ukyoutube.com | — |
| How to Talk to Anyone - 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships | Leil Lowndes | Book | January 2023 | Communication | — | — |
| How to Win Friends & Influence People | Dale Carnegie | Book | March 2024 | Communication | — | — |
| Hyperfocus - How to Work Less and Achieve More | Chris Bailey | Book | April 2024 | Productivity | chrisbailey.com | — |
| If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies | Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares | Book | June 2026 | Tech Teams and Product Management, Philosophy | ifanyonebuildsit.comyoutube.com | — |
| The Infinite Game - How Great Businesses Achieve Long-lasting Success | Simon Sinek | Book | June 2022 | Personal Development | simonsinek.comyoutube.com | — |
| Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | Talk | — | Personal Development | ted.com | — |
| Just Work: How to Confront Bias, Prejudice and Bullying to Build a Culture of Inclusivity | Kim Scott | Book | December 2021 | People and Teams | radicalcandor.com | — |
| Key Person of Influence | Daniel Priestley | Book | October 2020 | Personal Development | keypersonofinfluence.com | — |
| The Leader's Guide | Eric Ries | Book | April 2021 | Tech Teams and Product Management | theleadersguide.orgStep 7 of Getting Started with Agile & Product Thinking | — |
| Leaders Eat Last - Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't | Simon Sinek | Book | July 2022 | People and Teams | simonsinek.comyoutu.beStep 3 of Understanding Teams | — |
| Leadership Is Language - The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don't | L. David Marquet | Book | October 2023 | Communication | davidmarquet.com | — |
| The Leadership Pipeline 2E: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company | Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel | Book | March 2022 | People and Teams | cleverism.com | — |
| Lives of the Stoics - The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius | Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman | Book | April 2025 | Philosophy | — | — |
| Making Sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) | Henrik Kniberg | Video | — | Tech Teams and Product Management | youtube.comStep 2 of Getting Started with Agile & Product Thinking | — |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | Book | September 2025 | Philosophy | youtube.com | — |
| The Motive | Patrick M. Lencioni | Book | July 2020 | People and Teams | tablegroup.comyoutu.be | — |
| Multipliers | Liz Wiseman | Book | June 2026 | People and Teams, Leadership | thewisemangroup.comyoutube.com | — |
| My Dad... The Agile Coach?!? | Development That Pays | Video | — | Tech Teams and Product Management | youtube.comStep 3 of Getting Started with Agile & Product Thinking | — |
| Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss | Book | July 2020 | Communication | blackswanltd.comyoutube.com | — |
| Noise | Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein | Book | March 2026 | Personal Development, Business Theory and Strategy | readnoise.comyoutube.com | — |
| Outliers - The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | Book | July 2023 | Enjoyment | gladwellbooks.com | — |
| Principles - Life and Work | Ray Dalio | Book | May 2023 | Business Theory and Strategy | principles.comyoutu.be | — |
| The Progress Principle | Teresa Amabile, Steven Kramer | Book | May 2026 | People and Teams, Leadership | progressprinciple.comyoutube.com | — |
| Radical Focus (Second Edition) - Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results | Christina Wodtke | Book | October 2025 | Goal Setting, Project Management | cwodtke.com | — |
| Range | David Epstein | Book | February 2026 | Personal Development | davidepstein.comyoutube.com | — |
| The Ride of a Lifetime | Robert Iger | Book | June 2026 | Business Theory and Strategy | penguinrandomhouse.com | — |
| Scaling Up: Rockefeller Habits 2.0 | Verne Harnish | Book | May 2021 | Business Theory and Strategy | scalingup.com | — |
| Silo Politics and Turf Wars | Patrick Lencioni | Book | May 2020 | People and Teams | tablegroup.com | — |
| Skin in the Game | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Book | May 2022 | Philosophy | youtube.com | — |
| Slow Productivity - The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout | Cal Newport | Book | February 2025 | Productivity | calnewport.com | — |
| Start with Why | Simon Sinek | Book | August 2020 | People and Teams | simonsinek.comyoutu.be | — |
| Stillness Is the Key | Ryan Holiday | Book | May 2025 | Philosophy | ryanholiday.netyoutu.be | — |
| StrengthsFinder 2.0 | Tom Rath | Book | — | Personal Development | gallup.com | — |
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson | Book | October 2020 | Personal Development | markmanson.netyoutube.com | — |
| Subtract - The Untapped Science of Less | Leidy Klotz | Book | July 2024 | Enjoyment | leidyklotz.comyoutu.be | — |
| The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober | Talk | — | Personal Development | youtube.com | — |
| Supercommunicators - How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection | Charles Duhigg | Book | February 2024 | Communication | charlesduhigg.comyoutu.be | — |
| Surrounded by Idiots | Thomas Erikson | Book | August 2021 | People and Teams | surroundedbyidiots.com | — |
| Team of Teams | General Stanley McChrystal | Book | April 2022 | People and Teams | mcchrystalgroup.com | — |
| Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow | Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais | Book | September 2025 | Tech Teams and Product Management | itrevolution.comStep 4 of Working Effectively With AI | — |
| Think Faster, Talk Smarter - How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot | Matt Abrahams | Book | November 2024 | Communication | mattabrahams.comyoutu.be | — |
| Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Book | August 2020 | Personal Development | penguinrandomhouse.comyoutube.com | — |
| Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts | Annie Duke | Book | February 2026 | Personal Development, Philosophy | annieduke.com | — |
| Thinking in Systems: A Primer | Donella H. Meadows | Book | January 2026 | Business Theory and Strategy, Philosophy | donellameadows.org | — |
| To Challenge the Status Quo, Find a Co-Conspirator | Ipsita Dasgupta | Talk | — | Leadership | youtube.com | — |
| Turn The Ship Around! | L. David Marquet | Book | April 2022 | People and Teams | davidmarquet.comyoutu.be | — |
| What is Agile? Agile Explained... with a Train Set | Development That Pays | Video | — | Tech Teams and Product Management | youtube.comStep 1 of Getting Started with Agile & Product Thinking | — |
| What Really Motivates People to Be Honest in Business | Alexander Wagner | Talk | — | Business Theory and Strategy | ted.com | — |
| Who Moved My Cheese | Spencer Johnson | Book | — | Personal Development | en.wikipedia.org | — |
| Why You Should Bring Your Whole Self to Work | Mike Robbins | Talk | — | People and Teams | youtube.com | — |
| Winning Minds - Secrets from the Language of Leadership | Simon Lancaster | Book | July 2023 | Communication | — | — |
| Wiring the Winning Organization | Gene Kim, Steven J. Spear | Book | September 2024 | Business Theory and Strategy | itrevolution.comStep 1 of Working Effectively With AI | — |
| Working Backwards: Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon | Colin Bryar, Bill Carr | Book | August 2021 | Business Theory and Strategy | — | — |
| Your Next Five Moves - Master the Art of Business Strategy | Patrick Bet-David | Book | November 2024 | Business Theory and Strategy | yournextfivemoves.com | — |