Executive coach for product leaders; previously a product partner at GV and a product manager at Google.
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The most important business and product management book of the past fifty years. If you’re a technology PM and you haven’t read Christensen, do so right now.
From “Best Books for Product Managers [2026]”, his standing list, introduced as “the 44 books I’d consider essential to any PM’s bookshelf”. Marked TOP PICK on the page. Every book links through amzn.to and a Bookshop.org affiliate id (/a/83161/).
Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.
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Disruptive innovations often come from outsiders and new entrants, not incumbent leaders. Focus on customers’ evolving jobs-to-be-done, not existing product categories. Be ready to cannibalize your own products.
A post distilling his favorite takeaways from about 40 soft-skills books for developers and eng leaders.
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company; former product lead at KISSmetrics who writes about leadership and product management.
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Disruption is a word in technology that has been so abused that the true meaning may be lost on many. Fortunately, we have this incredible book to explain how disruption starts and eventually crushes incumbents in any market. It's incredible to follow the author's accounts of many disruptions over the past 100 years and think about current disruptions. Despite publishing in 1997, he predicts does a solid prediction of both what became Tesla and Google Docs.
His continuously-updated books page (first published 2012-12-16, last updated 2020-10-28), where every book he reads gets a 1-10 rating and a "Why Read it" note. Book links carry his Amazon affiliate tag.
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