Yes! There’s a bunch of great books out there that are helpful. The Managers Path is probably the best in some sense, but I find it’s kind of dry and easy to miss its points because of the way it’s presented. I highly recommend the blog and books of Michael Lopp. These won’t tell you everything you need to know, some of it you’ll have to figure out for yourself (even if it’s not through direct experience but thinking seriously about how to make an org that functions better), but you can learn a lot from these.
Harvard Business Review is also useful. Not because it’s going to necessarily give you a bunch of good ideas, but because it’s the equivalent of ACM Queue for managers, so you’ll get a sense of how managers think about things and that will be valuable in building up your model.
Yes! There’s a bunch of great books out there that are helpful. The Managers Path is probably the best in some sense, but I find it’s kind of dry and easy to miss its points because of the way it’s presented. I highly recommend the blog and books of Michael Lopp. These won’t tell you everything you need to know, some of it you’ll have to figure out for yourself (even if it’s not through direct experience but thinking seriously about how to make an org that functions better), but you can learn a lot from these.
Harvard Business Review is also useful. Not because it’s going to necessarily give you a bunch of good ideas, but because it’s the equivalent of ACM Queue for managers, so you’ll get a sense of how managers think about things and that will be valuable in building up your model.