[anarchitect]

In the last five years moved from development, to leading the development team to more of a product management role. Fully agree with that DanielBMarkham it's "the people part of things is where you'll screw up", so I'd focus on communication and team-building as much as processes.

I've found a few books really useful:

* The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-ma...)

* Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452796-drive)

* Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7696135-making-ideas-hap...)

* Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happi...)

* Rework (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework)

These days I get the most value from articles and videos. Here is a list of my recommended articles on Medium, which might be useful - https://medium.com/@nickboyce/has-recommended. Some great stuff in the list recommended by ravivyas too.

Edit: Something else I have been experimenting with is buying executive summaries of major books, in order to familiarise myself with as many perspectives as possible.

[cloverich]

Can you elaborate on the purchasing of executive summaries? Sounds interesting; I also like to forage and often find that, for certain books, I really just want the technical footnotes.

[anarchitect]

Sure. There are plenty of summaries available on Amazon, for instance, this summary of Good to Great (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008VGWCHY/ref=oh_aui_d_d...).

There are also some really great mini books like Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007P5N8D4/ref=oh_aui_d_d...)

Also, I haven't tried these yet, but there are a number of subscription services available for summaries like http://www.summary.com/ and http://www.getabstract.com/en/

The other way of cheating is by watching talks by the authors, which give you the key concepts from the book in an hour. For example Simon Sinek presenting Why Leaders Eat Last (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRcHdeUG9Y)

[southflorida]

Rework was Awesome! I would recommend The Lean Startup http://theleanstartup.com/ in addition to those above. Made to Stick was a good one too.http://heathbrothers.com/books/made-to-stick/

[anarchitect]

The Lean Startup was a real eye-opener for me, even though I thought I understood all the key concepts (I didn't). For some reason I always assume everyone on HN has already read it!

Made to Stick looks great. Added to my wishlist, thanks.

[zbravo]

Drive Animated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc