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At an organizational level, Donald Reinertsen "the principles of product development flow" is outstanding.

https://books.google.de/books/about/The_Principles_of_Produc...

It motivates small batch sizes, decision making at ground level, short cycle times, all the mechanics behind kanban, scrum, XP, without ever using any of their jargon.

And it moves up into economics by explaining e.g. cost of delay as a metric guiding useful decision making.

The book eatablishes a wonderful shared understanding of the principles underlying lean and agile, why they work and how to make them work, shared understanding between engineering and management.