Book Recommendations for PMs

Cracking the PM Career

OUR GOAL This book shares the skills, frameworks, and practices that my peers and I have painstakingly learned and honed over the years so that PMs can spend less time reinventing the wheel. It delves into the mystery and ambiguity surrounding career progression so that PMs can focus on the right areas and reach their potential.

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INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love | Silicon Valley Product Group

How do today's most successful tech companies-Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla-define, design and develop the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than the vast majority of tech companies.

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Chaos Monkeys

It won't be anything he/she hasn't seen before. I'd say go for it and let your kid get a head start on understanding the way the world works.It won't be anything he/she hasn't seen before. I'd say go for it and let your kid get a head start on understanding the way the world works.

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model -a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior.

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business [Christensen, Clayton M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

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The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things book. Read 2,681 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -...

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The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup book. Read 3,989 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable....

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Continuous Discovery Habits

"Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, made this exact argument in his 2015 letter to shareholders,33 where he introduced the idea of Level 1 and Level 2 decisions. He describes a Level 1 decision as one that is hard to reverse, whereas a Level 2 decision is one that is easy to reverse.

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Steve Jobs

Apple computers have been expensive since the Apple I, released in April 1976 which was $666.66 while competing systems such as the KIM-1 were $245. TApple computers have been expensive since the Apple I, released in April 1976 which was $666.66 while competing systems such as the KIM-1 were $245.

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Creativity, Inc.

The book is presented as a "how to" on inspiring a creative culture and doing away with anything that hinders the creative process. While giving a great behind-the-scenes look at the production steps that went into favorite animated films, it also provides some valuable tidbits of advice for leaders.

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Cracking the PM Interview

TL;DR - be a wicked smart generalist because the market is still defining the role Having just added the title of "Product Manager" at my current employer, I needed to know what I didn't know. This book did a fine job of starting that process, but ultimately left me wanting.

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Decode and Conquer

If you're a first time Product Manager, or an inexperienced one, this book might more useful. There was nothing earth shattering as far as I was concerned, it was mildly useful as a quick brush up on items to remember to mention.

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