What’s a good book on product management? Are there any that have inspired you?

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This was released just a couple of months ago and it has all the most recent examples of successes and failures you can imagine(even Quibi and MoviePass) with links to videos and reputable articles. It is my sacred Heaven

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Inspired by Marty Cagan
The messy middle by Scott Belsky
Zero to one by Peter Thiel

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Inspired by Marty cagan. It’s basically a guidebook and I have so many post it notes and scribbles in that book

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The book that got it right was the original - “Mythical Man Month” by Fred Brooks. It was published in the 1970s! There are some things that are not so relevant but the conclusions are exactly what people still face today.

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The billion Dollar App!
Side note, I wrote that book :)

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Depends on the stage of your career.

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What about some books by women? I’m currently reading Building for Everyone by Annie Jean-Baptiste and am enjoying it so far.

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I’m hear great things about that book as well. Next on my list

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Product management's sacred seven and zero to one see my personal favorites

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Build what matters by Ben Foster

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Not necessarily a product book, but storytelling is an important piece here. I like “Storyworthy” for this. Helps teach you how to frame stories about your product, users, pain points in a way to keep folks engaged.

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