Agile Leader Library

Updated on 30-06-2023

Dare to Lead

Leadership is not about titles or the corner office. It’s about the willingness to step up, put yourself out there, and lean into courage. The world is desperate for braver leaders. It’s time for all of us to step up.

                                                                                                                                          ~ Brene Brown

• Dare to Lead – Brene Brown
• Imperfection, Rising Strong and other Brene Brown’s books can be found here.
• Brene Brown’s Leadership Library.

Agile

• Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, Jurgen Appelo
• Managing for Happiness, Jurgen Appelo
• Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, Lyssa Adkins
• The Journey to Enterprise Agility: Systems Thinking and Organizational Legacy, Daryl Kulak , Hong Li
• Leading Beyond Change. Parctical Guide to Evolving Business Agility, Michael K. Sahota, Audree Tara Sahota

Project Management

To start your project management journey:

• Just Enough Project Management. The Indispensable Four-step Process for Managing Any Project, Better, Faster by Curtis Cook

“This versatile book’s one-of-a-kind, customizable templates free managers from the time-consuming process of having to reinvent basic techniques and methods from one project to the next”.

To explore each of the project management approach:

• Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme by Robert K. Wysocki

If interested in taking PMP certification exam or familiarize yourself with Project Management Institute standard: PMBOK® Guide

And top of the top on leading projects:

• The Power of Project Leadership: 7 Keys to Help You Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader,  Susanne Madsen

Product Management

• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group), Marty Cagan
• Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, Mik Kersten

Scrum

• Scrum. The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland

People…Teams and Collaborative Culture

• OZ Principle by Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman.
• Speed od Trust, Stephen R. Covey. More here.
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results by Ken Blanchard, Renee Broadwell and others
• The Servant. A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership, James C. Hunter
• Drive. The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by  Daniel Pink
• Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does, Susan Fowler
• Teaming, Amy, C, Edmondson
• Transcendent. The New Science of Self-Actualization by Scott Barry Kaufman

Less but better

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials ~Lin Yutang

• Essentialism by Greg McKeown

Beliefs

• Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential by Carol Dweck

„Over the past 15 years Nancy Kline has identified 10 behaviors that form a system called a Thinking Environment, a model of human interaction that dramatically improves the way people think, and thus the way they work and live.The power of effective listening is recognized as the essential tool of good management. In this book, Kline describes how we can achieve this, and presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings, solve business problems or build stronger relationships, this book offers you a new world of possibilities”.

• Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind, Nancy Kline
• More Time to Think: A Way of Being in the World, Nancy Kline

Teal

• Reinventing Organisations, Frederic Laloux

Mindfulness

“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1990).

Ellen Langer, Ph.D., a social psychologist has spent the last 40 years researching the interplay between mindfulness, health, well-being, and aging. For nearly 40 years, she has been researching and writing about mindfulness – defined as a sustained awareness of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment. Interview with Ellen here, a few books below and a link to Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course.

• The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress by Teasdale John, Williams Mark, Segal Zindel
• Mindfulness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) by Harvard Business Review,  Daniel Goleman,  Ellen Langer,  Susan David,  Christina Congleton

And more books here.