I curated a reading list of what I have read and considered essential books on Business Agility, leadership, design thinking, and like topics. The list in is no particular order. If you need a starting point, look for the asterisk (*). This is an evergreen post I update often.

Leadership, Change Management, & Organizational Culture

• Leading Change by John Kotter (amz link) *
• Switch by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (amz link) *
• Accelerate by John P. Kotter (amz link)
• Start with Why by Simon Sinek (amz link)
• Drive by Daniel H. Pink (amz link)
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott (amz link)
• Dare to Lead by Brené Brown (amz link) *
• Daring Greatly by Brené Brown (amz link)
• Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek (amz link)
• Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet (amz link)
• Mindset by Carol S. Dweck (amz link)
• Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary & Tom Poppendieck (amz link)
• Leadership Is Language by David Marquet (amz link)
• Tribal Unity by Em Campbell-Pretty (amz link)
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (amz link) *
• Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan (amz link)
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman) by Harvard Business Review, et al. (amz link)
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture (with article "How to Build a Culture of Originality" by Adam Grant) by Harvard Business Review, et al. (amz link)
  

Coaching, Facilitating, Teaching, & Mentoring

• Training From the Back of the Room! by Sharon L. Bowman (amz link) *
• Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins (amz link) *
• Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais (amz link) *
• The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge (amz link)
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (amz link)
• Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal (Retired General) (amz link)
• Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby (amz link)
• The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier (amz link)
• Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni (amz link)
  

Lean Systems Thinking, Value Streams, & Measurements

• Project to Product by Mik Kersten (amz link) *
• The Principles of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen (amz link) *
• Value Stream Mapping by Karen Martin & Mike Osterling (amz link) *
• Learning to See by Mike Rother & John Shook (amz link)
• Managing to Learn by John Shook (amz link)
• Lean Thinking by James P. Womack & Daniel T. Jones (amz link)
• Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming (amz link) *
• Measure What Matters by John Doerr (amz link) *
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (amz link)
• The High-Velocity Edge by Steven J. Spear (amz link)
• Creating Great Teams by Sandy Mamoli and David Mole (amz link)
  

Innovation & Startup Mindsets

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (amz link) *
• The Startup Way by Eric Ries (amz link)
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation (with article "The Discipline of Innovation," by Peter F. Drucker) by Harvard Business Review, et al. (amz link) *
• The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (amz link)

DevSecOps, Technical Agility, Architecture, & Scaling Lean-Agile

• SAFe Distilled by Richard Knaster & Dean Leffingwell (amz link) *
• The DecOps Handbook, by Gene Kim, et al. (amz link) *
• Agile Software Requirements by Dean Leffingwell (amz link)
• User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton & Peter Economy (amz link)
• Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business by David J. Anderson (amz link)
  

Agile Product Delivery, Design Thinking & Customer Centricity

• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, & George Spafford (amz link) *
• The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim (amz link)
• Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder, et al. (amz link)
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking (with article "Design Thinking" By Tim Brown) by Harvard Business Review, et al. (amz link) *
• The Lean Machine by Dantar Oosterwal (amz link) *
• Lean Product and Process Development by Allen Ward & Sobek Durward (amz link) *
• Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur (amz link)
• About Face by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, et al. (amz link)
• Paper Prototyping by Carolyn Snyder (amz link)
• Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden (amz link)
• The Design Thinking Playbook by Michael Lerwick (amz link)

Digital Transformation

• Competing in the Age of AI (amz link) *

Strategy & General Business

• Built to Last by Jim Collins (amz link) *
• Good to Great by Jim Collins (amx link)
• HBR's 10 Must Reads On Strategy by Harvard Business Review, et al. (amz link)
• Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim (amz link) *
• Made to Stick by Chip Heath (amz link)
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger) by Harvard Business Review, et al. (amz link)

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