Rands Leadership Books Reading List
1. 
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
by:
Camille Fournier
4.26 avg rating — 9,951 ratings 2. 
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
by:
Kim Malone Scott
4.06 avg rating — 53,583 ratings 3. 
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
by:
L. David Marquet
4.23 avg rating — 20,330 ratings 4. 
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
by:
Julie Zhuo
4.20 avg rating — 20,546 ratings 5. 
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by:
Gene Kim
4.26 avg rating — 48,834 ratings 6. 
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
by:
Kerry Patterson
4.07 avg rating — 79,666 ratings 
8. 
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
by:
Michael Lopp
3.92 avg rating — 4,233 ratings 9. 
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
by:
Will Larson
4.08 avg rating — 3,664 ratings 10. 
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels 3.85 avg rating — 35,885 ratings
12. 
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
by:
Matthew Skelton
4.19 avg rating — 5,266 ratings 13. 
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by:
Gallup Press
3.94 avg rating — 41,320 ratings 14. 
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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
by:
John Doerr
3.98 avg rating — 36,285 ratings 
21. 
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
by:
Chris Voss
4.35 avg rating — 198,032 ratings 22. 
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)
by:
Jim Collins
4.06 avg rating — 82,780 ratings 23. 
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
by:
Laszlo Bock
4.13 avg rating — 16,176 ratings 24. 
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech 4.07 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
25. 
How Will You Measure Your Life?: A thought-provoking approach to measuring life's success 4.05 avg rating — 37,212 ratings
26. 
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.25 avg rating — 33,880 ratings 27. 
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by:
Roger Fisher
3.94 avg rating — 84,170 ratings 
29. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,396 ratings 
31. 
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
by:
Jim Collins
4.12 avg rating — 277,940 ratings 32. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,307 ratings 33. 
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World 4.10 avg rating — 3,880 ratings
34. 
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
by:
Eric Schmidt
3.98 avg rating — 16,473 ratings 35. 
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
by:
Chip Heath
3.96 avg rating — 18,033 ratings 35. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,374 ratings 
38. 
Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
by:
Aaron Dignan
4.11 avg rating — 1,455 ratings 38. 
40. 
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
by:
John C. Maxwell
4.16 avg rating — 56,101 ratings 41. 
The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else
by:
Daniel Coyle
4.03 avg rating — 26,519 ratings 41. 
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
by:
Charles Duhigg
3.90 avg rating — 35,343 ratings 43. 
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
by:
Daniel Goleman
4.05 avg rating — 131,739 ratings 44. 
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by:
Ben Horowitz
4.21 avg rating — 105,275 ratings 
45. 
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
by:
Will Larson
4.05 avg rating — 2,872 ratings 47. 
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
by:
Liz Wiseman
3.99 avg rating — 15,396 ratings 48. 
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Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints 4.08 avg rating — 615 ratings
49. 
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
by:
Gene Kim
4.07 avg rating — 9,782 ratings 
51. 
It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy 4.12 avg rating — 10,159 ratings
56. 
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
by:
Eric Barker
4.11 avg rating — 16,833 ratings 57. 
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
by:
Peter F. Drucker
4.08 avg rating — 37,231 ratings 58. 
Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind
by:
Dan Charnas
4.08 avg rating — 2,055 ratings 59. 
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
by:
Adam M. Grant
4.07 avg rating — 38,966 ratings 
61. 
Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters
by:
Anthony K. Tjan
3.72 avg rating — 210 ratings 
64. 
The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company
by:
Ram Charan
3.92 avg rating — 2,061 ratings 
64. 
Roadmap to Non-Executive Directorship: The Essential Handbook: Insights From An International Corporate Governance And Board Expert
by:
Mr Taka Sande
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
67. 
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
by:
Titus Winters
4.20 avg rating — 1,879 ratings 67. 
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
by:
Dave Logan
3.98 avg rating — 9,905 ratings 
71. 
That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again
by:
John P. Kotter
3.84 avg rating — 1,400 ratings 71. 
Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
by:
Mark Goulston
4.06 avg rating — 9,631 ratings 71. 
The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results
by:
Stephen Bungay
4.32 avg rating — 1,216 ratings 
75. 
Inviting Leadership: Invitation-Based Change™ in the New World of Work
by:
Daniel Mezick
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 76. 
76. 
The Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
by:
Jack Stack
3.95 avg rating — 2,684 ratings 76. 
Lean Change Management: Innovative practices for managing organizational change
by:
Jason Little
4.03 avg rating — 465 ratings 
80. 
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World 4.10 avg rating — 3,880 ratings
83. 
Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time
by:
Susan Scott
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,300 ratings 83. 
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
by:
Chris Voss
4.35 avg rating — 198,032 ratings 
86. 
Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
by:
Christine Porath
3.71 avg rating — 574 ratings 86. 
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
by:
Eric Jorgenson
4.40 avg rating — 64,722 ratings 
89. 
Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
by:
Edward D. Hess
3.60 avg rating — 548 ratings 
91. 
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
by:
Seneca
4.17 avg rating — 43,020 ratings 
94. 
Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation
by:
Neel Doshi
4.15 avg rating — 712 ratings 
96. 
Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say -- and What You Don't
by:
L. David Marquet
4.05 avg rating — 1,986 ratings 97. 
The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviours that Transform Ordinary People into World Class Leaders
by:
Elena L. Botelho
4.03 avg rating — 1,404 ratings 
99. 
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
by:
Jake Knapp
4.19 avg rating — 23,041 ratings 