Books for team leaders and project managers. Part 2

    The previous article was very well received by readers, therefore, as promised, today I prepared an article-bonus.

    So, I asked to answer the question which books from the article did you read?

    Poll Results:
    Book title
    Number of votes
    Percent
    Tom DeMarco. Deadline
    Project Management Roman
    247
    54%
    Frederick Brooks. Mythical man-month, or How
    software systems are created
    174
    38%
    Joel Spolsky. Joel on programming
    165
    36%
    Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister. Human factor. Successful
    projects and teams
    148
    32%
    Jason Fride, David Heinmeier Hensson. Rework.
    Business without prejudice
    108
    24%
    Jeffrey Young and William Simon. iKona. Steve
    Jobs
    94
    21%
    Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister. Waltzing with the Bears:
    Risk Management in Software Development Projects
    70
    fifteen%
    Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister. Naughty from adrenaline and zombie
    patterns. Project Team Behaviors
    51
    eleven%
    Carmine Gallo. i Presentation.
    Persuasion lessons from Apple leader Steve Jobs
    48
    eleven%
    Patrick Lensioni. Meeting Death
    21
    5%
    Patrick Lensioni. Five vices of the team. Proverbs of
    Leadership
    19
    4%
    Patrick Lensioni. The Five Temptations of a Leader: The Parables of Leadership
    16
    4%
    Patrick Lensioni. Three signs of dull work. A story with meaning
    for managers (and their subordinates)
    eleven
    2%

    And now another bonus - a list of books on a given topic, which readers have sent us:

    1. Fergus O'Connell. How to successfully manage projects. silver bullet
    2. 37 signals. Getting real
    3. Yitzhak Adizes. Corporate Lifecycle Management
    4. S. Portney. Project Management for Dummies
    5. Glory to Pankratov. Manager black book
    6. Philip Kotler. Marketing management
    7. Jeff Cox, Dee Jacob, Susan Bergland. New goal. How to combine lean manufacturing, six sigma, and constraint theory
    8. Lawrence Leach. On time and on budget. Critical Chain Project Management
    9. Eliyahu Goldratt. Goal: continuous improvement process
    10. Eliyahu Goldratt. Goal 2. It's not about luck
    11. Mike Michalowitz. Startup without a budget
    12. Edward Jordan Kamikaze path
    13. J. Hank Rainwater. How to graze cats
    14. Covey Stephen. Seven skills of highly effective people
    15. Igor Ashmanov. Life inside the bubble. How can a manager survive in an invested project
    16. A.P. Prokhorov. Russian management model
    17. Roman Savin. Dot Com Testing, or Internet Startup Bug Abuse Guide
    18. Dale Carnegie. How to make friends and influence people
    19. Stas Davydov. Do not bother me to work!
    20. Vern Harnish. Rules for managing profitable startups
    21. Jim Camp First say no. Negotiation technologies that professionals would like to hide from you
    22. Kennedy Gavin. You can agree on everything
    23. Cialdini Robert. Psychology of influence
    24. W. Detmer. Goldratt's Theory of Constraints. A systematic approach to continuous improvement
    25. Scott Berkun. The art of managing IT projects
    26. Lee Yackoka. Manager career
    27. Gray Clifford C., Larson Eric W. Project Management
    28. Michael Litvak. Command or obey
    29. Yitzhak Adizes. The perfect leader. Why they can’t become and what follows from this
    30. Tony Shay. Delivering happiness. From zero to a billion. The history of the creation of an outstanding company first-hand
    31. Dan Kennedy. Hard management. Make people work for results
    32. Robert Green. 48 laws of power
    33. Vladimir Kozlov. Psychological pressure
    34. Beck John, Wade Mitchell. Got game. How a generation of gamers forever changes the business environment
    35. Vladimir Tarasov. Technology of life. Book for heroes
    36. Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs
    37. Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged
    38. Steve McConell. Perfect code
    39. Ed Sullivan. TIME - MONEY. Creating a software development team
    40. Richard Branson Losing innocence
    41. Blake Maykoski. Leave your mark. How to build a company that changes the world for the better

    And some respondents left feedback. I liked this review the most:

    Go on, please. All your books about leadership, motivation, etc. garbage. Get things done better.

    Thank you, I’m going to study.

    Have a nice reading!

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