Awesome Leadership and Management Awesome

What This Is, and Where It Comes From

Since 2013-ish, Joe Goldberg, who created the original document inspiring this list, read a crap-ton of books and articles about “leadership” and “management” and took notes along the way. He shared it with friends who were transitioning to management roles and eventually decided to open-source it. Here you’ll find Joe’s still-public document, which provides meatier summaries of the articles you’ll find listed here as well as lots of supplementary notes.

In summer 2017 Lauri Apple found out about Joe’s docs via Software Lead Weekly and asked Joe about posting the contents to GitHub. He gave the greenlight. Lauri changed up the format (very brief blurbs), turned the doc into an Awesome List, and has continued adding new entries ever since. Helping out with the initial upload were a team of Lauri’s former colleagues at Zalando. These days the list receives contributions from people around the world.

Quotes That Capture the General Spirit of this List’s Contents

Contents

FAQ

Who is this for?

So glad you asked! Share and promote your favorite managing and leading resources/go-to’s (books, articles, Twitter feeds, videos, etc.) by reviewing the contributor guidelines, then making a pull request (one per item/entry). For questions, go ahead and post an issue in the Issues Tracker.

How can I get more info on [missing topic]?

Please make a request via the Issues Tracker if there’s a topic you’d like this list to include.

Did you write all this yourself? (Credit/Attribution)

Almost none of the content shared in this list is by the authors. Where there’s a link, the content below it is generally a summary of the linked webpage. When there’s no link, it’s either original content or gives credit/attribution. Some book summaries are from Personal MBA, which Joe piloted and consulted on, but not to the extent where he is willing to take credit for its content.

License

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