Awesome Leadership
and Management 
What This Is, and Where It
Comes From
Starting in 2013-ish, Joe Greenheron, 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 share it as open source. 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.
- “An awesome collection of resources!” —Angie
Jones, Twitter
- “Thanks again for putting together this tremendous resource!”—Dave Golden, MongoDB and
contributor
- “I have hunted and used this repeatedly in the last few months and
referred many others to the material. So thank you—it’s making a real
difference in more ways than you could Imagine! :)” —Dave Igoe, via
Slack
Quotes
That Capture the General Spirit of this List’s Contents
- “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of
giants.” — Sir Isaac Newton
- “If I have not seen as far, it is because giants were standing on my
shoulders.” — lots of people, including Leigh Caplan
- “People need to stop using the phrase ‘natural-born leader.’ No one
is a natural born leader.” — Kate Heddleston
Contents
- Abilities, Qualities and
Values
- Building Products
and Startups, and OKRs
- Building Teams
- Conflict Prevention and
Conflict Resolution
- The CTO Role
- Culture
- Decision-Making and
Prioritization
- Delegation
- Diversity and
Inclusion
- Empathy and Listening
- Firing
- Giving Feedback,
Praise, and Advice
- Hiring and Interviewing
Candidates
- For Developers:
Software Craftspersonship, Teamwork, Technical Debt
- Influencing Others
- Leadership Forums
- Leadership
Philosophies and Styles
- Leading Leaders
- Leaving a Team
- Managing Remotely
- Media: Blogs,
Newsletters, Podcasts
- Meetings
- Motivation and
“Retention”
- Onboarding
- One-on-Ones
- People Ops,
Performance Reviews, and Goal-setting
- Planning, Roadmaps and
Processes
- Postmortems and
Retrospectives
- Productivity and Time
Management
- Tools to Define
Your Leadership Style
- Transitioning
to Management
- The VP Engineering
Role
FAQ
Who is this for?
- Individual contributors (ICs) considering a move to management
- ICs who want to stay ICs but want to have more influence in their
orgs
- ICs who recently moved into a management role
- Managers looking to level-up a particular skill or attribute
- Managers transitioning to meta-management (managing managers)
How can I submit a
link or ask a question?
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.
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