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From 10 to 50 people

Going from doing the work to leading the people who do it: becoming a manager, running a team, and keeping speed as you scale.

5 books, in order

  1. The Making of a Manager cover

    Julie Zhuo

    A field guide for the suddenly-in-charge new manager.

    Drawing on her own path from new manager to design VP at Facebook, Zhuo writes an honest, practical guide to the early years of managing people. She covers the real...

  2. High Output Management cover

    Andrew S. Grove

    A manager's output is the output of their whole organization.

    Andy Grove distills the management principles he used to run Intel into a practical operating manual for managers at any level. He frames management around leverage:...

  3. Radical Candor cover

    Kim Scott

    Care personally and challenge directly to lead better.

    Scott argues that great management comes from Radical Candor: caring personally about people while challenging them directly. She contrasts it with the failure modes...

  4. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team cover

    Patrick Lencioni

    Five interlocking dysfunctions that quietly sink any team.

    Told as a business fable about a struggling tech company's new CEO, the book lays out a pyramid of five dysfunctions: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of...

  5. Blitzscaling cover

    Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh

    Prioritize speed over efficiency to win winner-take-all markets.

    Hoffman and Yeh define blitzscaling as a set of techniques for igniting and managing breakneck growth, deliberately accepting inefficiency and risk to capture a market...

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