The knowledge from these books will show you how to select, define, launch, refine, and make money from your idea. Below is Top 5 best books for product managers.
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Forbes, The New Republic, The Economist, Bloomberg,and Gizmodo, and as one of the Top 10 Investigative Journalism Books by Nieman Reports
“Mr. Stone tells this story with authority and verve, and lots of well-informed reporting…. A dynamic portrait of the driven and demanding Mr. Bezos.” — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“Engrossing…. Stone’s long tenure covering both Bezos and Amazon gives his retelling a sureness that keeps the story moving swiftly.” — New York Times Book Review
“Jeff Bezos is one of the most visionary, focused, and tenacious innovators of our era, and like Steve Jobs he transforms and invents industries. Brad Stone captures his passion and brilliance in this well-reported and compelling narrative.” — Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
“Stone’s account moves swiftly and surely.” — New York Times Book Review, “Editor’s Choice”
“The Everything Store is a revelatory read for everyone–those selling and those sold to–who wants to understand the dynamics of the new digital economy. If you’ve ever one-clicked a purchase, you must read this book.” — Steven Levy, author of Hackers and In the Plex
“A deeply reported and deftly written book…. Like Steven Levy’s “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives,” and “Gates: How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry — and Made Himself the Richest Man in America” by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews, it is the definitive account of how a tech icon came to life.” — Seattle Times
“Stone’s book, at last, gives us a Bezos biography that can fit proudly on a shelf next to the best chronicles of America’s other landmark capitalists.” — Forbes
“Stone’s tale of the birth, near-death, and impressive revival of an iconic American company is well worth your time.” — Matthew Yglesias, Slate
“An engaging and fascinating read…. An excellent chronicle of Amazon’s rise…. A gift for entrepreneurs and business builders of the new generation.” — Business Insider
Beautiful Evidence
From Scientific American
“Science and art,” according to Tufte, “have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.” This book is about how that seeing turns into showing. Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University and author of three previous widely praised books on visual evidence, displays outstanding examples of the genre. One of the most arresting is Galileo’s series of hand-drawn images of sunspots. A colleague of Galileo, the author tells us, said that the astronomer’s drawings “delight both by the wonder of the spectacle and the accuracy of expression.” That, Tufte says, is beautiful evidence.
Editors of Scientific American
Review
“Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence is a masterpiece from a pioneer in the field of data visualization. His book in brilliant. The Galileo of graphics has done it again. It’s not often an iconoclast comes along, trashes the old ways, and replaces them with an irresistible new interpretation. By teasing out the sublime from the seemingly mundane world of charts, graphs, and tables, Tufte has proven to a generation of graphic designers that great thinking begets great presentation. In Beautiful Evidence, his fourth work on analytical design, Tufte digs more deeply into art and science to reveal very old connections between truth and beauty — all the way from Galileo to Google.” — Business Week, Best Innovation and Design Books for 2006
Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love
“At eBay, of all of the leaders in the past decade, Marty had the most significant and lasting impact on how we create products.”
– Frerk-Malte Feller, Managing Director, eBay Germany
“When it comes to creating inspiring products, Marty Cagan knows his stuff.”
– Pete Deemer, Former Chief Product Officer, Yahoo! and CEO of GoodAgile
“Marty balances key product management principles, great new techniques, and examples that bring them all home.”
– Jim Denney, VP Product Management, TiVo
“Marty is not only a seasoned expert on all aspects of the often ambiguous discipline of product management, his book also provides inspiration, tools and techniques, and really practical help.”
– Judy Gibbons, Accel Partners
“This is a must read if you have any hope of building a company based on great products.”
– Chuck Geiger, Former CTO, PayPal, Travelocity and Ask.com
“It doesn’t matter how good your engineering team is if they aren t building the right products, and no one is better than Marty at helping teams discover the right products.”
High Output Management
“An organizational Baedeker for managers at all levels. . . . A highly credible handbook for organizing work and directing and developing employees.” —The New York Times
“[Andy’s] book played a big role in shaping my management style.” —Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder and CEO of Facebook
“A good book, generous enough with advice and observations to be required reading.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A great book. . . . Its elementary prescriptions form the basis of a highly effective management style.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“An important book which says some very important things . . . beautifully and with style.” —Peter Drucker
“High Output Management is a bible that every entrepreneur and every manager in the country should look at, read and understand.” —Bill Campbell, former Intuit CEO
“Andy exemplifies the best of Silicon Valley. Andy built the model for what a high quality Silicon Valley company could be.” —Marc Andreessen, creator of the original Mosaic and Netscape web browsers
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
“While a great measure of the book’s appeal comes from Mr. Wheelan’s fluent style―a natural comedian, he is truly the Dave Barry of the coin toss set―the rest comes from his multiple real world examples illustrating exactly why even the most reluctant mathophobe is well advised to achieve a personal understanding of the statistical underpinnings of life.”
– New York Times
“The best math teacher you never had. [Naked Statistics] is filled with practical lessons, like how to judge the validity of polls, why you should never buy a lottery ticket, and how to keep an eye out for red flags in public statements.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“Naked Statistics is an apt title. Charles Wheelan strips away the superfluous outer garments and exposes the underlying beauty of the subject in a way that everyone can appreciate.”
– Hal Varian, chief economist at Google
“I cannot stress enough the importance of Americans’ need to understand statistics―the basis for a great deal of what we hear and read these days―and I cannot stress enough the value of Wheelan’s book in giving readers an approachable avenue to understanding statistics. Almost anyone interested in sports, politics, business, and the myriad of other areas in which statistics rule the roost today will benefit from this highly readable, on-target, and important book.”
– Frank Newport, Gallup editor-in-chief
“A fun, engaging book that shows why statistics is a vital tool for anyone who wants to understand the modern world.”
– Jacob J. Goldstein, “Planet Money” on NPR
“Are you one of those who dread statistics? Fear no more. Charles Wheelan’s Naked Statistics explains the intuition behind the various statistical concepts we use in an easy and accessible way.”
– Raghuram Rajan, author of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
“Two phrases you don’t often see together: ‘statistics primer’ and ‘rollicking good time.’ Until Charlie Wheelan got to it, that is. This book explains the way statistical ideas can help you understand much of everyday life.”
– Austan Goolsbee, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
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