Empowered
"Great teams are comprised of ordinary people that are empowered and inspired. They are empowered to solve hard problems in ways their customers love yet work for their business. They are inspired with ideas and techniques for quickly evaluating those ideas to discover solutions that work: they are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. This book is about the idea and reality of "achieving extraordinary results from ordinary people". Empowered is the companion to Inspired. It addresses the other half of the problem of building tech products?how to get the absolute best work from your product teams. However, the book's message applies much more broadly than just to product teams. Inspired was aimed at product managers. Empowered is aimed at all levels of technology-powered organizations: founders and CEO's, leaders of product, technology and design, and the countless product managers, product designers and engineers that comprise the teams. This book will not just inspire companies to empower their employees but will teach them how. This book will help readers achieve the benefits of truly empowered teams"
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- I would recommend reading both Inspired and Empowered by Marty Cagan to help you think about your product journey. Very relevant to what you'll be building, and personally I found Empowered challenged me in ways that both made me uncomfortable and also better at my job as a Product Manager.
- Problem 1: what are problem are people willing to pay me to solve for them?
Problem 2: can that problem be solved with a product?
Problem 3: can that product be built?
Reading up on product management has helped me a lot here. Empowered (Marty Cagan) is good.
- Here's a list of books I found helpful when reflecting upon my recent burnout. Very similar thoughts around lack of purpose, lack of direction at work, common disruptions at work leading to not being able to work deeply. And much more.
Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization by Scott Barry Kaufman
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
Inspired / Empowered by Marty Cagan
Build What Matters by Ben Foster
High Output Management by Andy Grove
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
Much by Cal Newport (Deep Work / A World Without Email / etc)
- My current box of books that I recommend to new managers on my teams:
Technology Specific:
* An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Will Larson)
* Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and Devops: Building and Scaling High Performing Teams (Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim)
* Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais)
* Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Marty Cagan)
* The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford)
General:
* The Goal (Eliyahu Goldratt)
* Turn the Ship Around! (L David Marquet)
* Just Culture (Sidney Dekker)
* Leadership on the Line (Ronald Heifetz, Marty Linsky)
* Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)
- Measure what matters - John Doerr | To understand how to measure success (with OKRs).
Empowered - Marty Cagan | For digital product leadership insights.
- completely agree with this. This is why the idea behind Cagan's "Empowered Product Teams" [https://svpg.com/empowered-product-teams/] is so important. Founders are often too blinded by their initial approach of solving their own pain that they are blinded to superior alternatives that could be more easily seen by fresh eyes. Key is to empower those people to solve the problem, not just implement a solution.
