14 Top business books like The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp

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The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

By: Michael Lopp

4.18

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who pra…

If you liked the business plot in The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

By: Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Unknown Binding

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear… read more

Similar categories in Richard P. Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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2. High Output Management

By: Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be… read more

Similar categories in Andrew S. Grove's High Output Management book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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3. Only the Paranoid Survive

By: Andrew S. Grove

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most … read more

Similar categories in Andrew S. Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • technology
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership

4. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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5. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

By: None

4.62

Format: None pages, ebook

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6. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

By: Camille Fournier

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Managing people is difficult wherever you work, but the tech industry as a whole is pretty bad at i… read more

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7. Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

By: Nicole Forsgren

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Does technology actually matter? And how can we apply technology to drive business value? For years… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Forsgren's Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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8. The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

By: Michael Lopp

4.18

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Many people think leadership is a higher calling that resides exclusively with a select few who pra… read more

Similar categories in Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • audiobook
  • engineering
  • self help
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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9. Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

By: Matthew Skelton

4.21

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and susta… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Skelton's Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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10. The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

By: Tanya Reilly

4.40

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But tr… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Reilly's The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
"What will Future You wish that Present You had done?"

-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

"Yes, you can be an introvert. No, you can't be a jerk."

-Tanya Reilly, The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

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11. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

By: Mark Richards

4.26

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

Although salary surveys worldwide regularly identify software architect as one of the top ten best … read more

Similar categories in Mark Richards's Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • audiobook
  • engineering
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
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12. System Design Interview – An insider's guide

By: Alex Xu

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

The system design interview is considered to be the most complex and most difficult technical job i… read more

Similar categories in Alex Xu's System Design Interview – An insider's guide book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
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13. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

Similar categories in Bent Flyvbjerg's How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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14. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

By: Will Larson

4.10

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part o… read more

Similar categories in Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
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15. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

By: Julie Zhuo

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the ch… read more

Similar categories in Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • business
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • technology
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16. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

By: Claire Hughes Johnson

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most impo… read more

Similar categories in Claire Hughes Johnson's Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • self help
  • technology
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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17. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

By: Titus Winters

4.20

Format: 599 pages, Paperback

The approach to and understanding of software engineering at Google is unlike any other company. Wi… read more

Similar categories in Titus Winters's Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • technology
"Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just say, “I don’t know."

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Google and Stack Overflow are great sources of opinions and information, but they’re no substitute for actual human experience."

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Programming is the immediate act of producing code. Software engineering is the set of policies, practices, and tools that are necessary to make that code useful for as long as it needs to be used an…"

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

"Making good engineering decisions is all about weighing all of the available inputs and making informed decisions about the trade-offs. Sometimes, those decisions are based on instinct or accepted be…"

-Titus Winters, Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

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18. Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track

By: Will Larson

4.07

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

At most technology companies, you’ll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software … read more

Similar categories in Will Larson's Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford

19. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

By: Neal Ford

4.28

Format: 459 pages, Paperback

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult… read more

Similar categories in Neal Ford's Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • technology
Cover of Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner

20. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

By: Sarah Drasner

4.20

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer t… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Drasner's Engineering Management for the Rest of Us book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • programming
  • software
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership by Will Larson

21. The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership

By: Will Larson

4.32

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for a peer on… read more

Similar categories in Will Larson's The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership book and Michael Lopp's The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

  • engineering
  • business
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • technology

5 Best audiobook books like The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp

Transform Your Habits

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

Michael Lopp

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

Mark Richards

4.26

Transform Your Habits

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

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17 best-selling nonfiction books like Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton

Transform Your Habits

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Eric Evans

4.15

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

Gene Kim , Jez Humble , Patrick Debois , John Willis

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

Michael Lopp

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren

4.06

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