I recently finished and learned a lot from Code Complete, Pragmatic Programmer, Never Split The Difference, and 48 Laws of Power. I plan to get started with Corporate Confidential and The 10 Day MBA soon. My goal is to stay in engineering, I just want to have better understanding of how to have control over my career and be able to navigate around the corporate world effectively. I have around 2 years of experience.
Were any of those books helpful? My manager says he doesn’t find them useful. Which ones did you enjoy?
Even really shitty books usually have at least *something* useful.
I guess he means versus developing on the job, or through internal training, or versus time spent doing technical work
How to win friends and influence people
The magic of thinking big
Negotiation Genius
Patrick Lencioni books
oh boy... you work at HPE and you are reading all these books... when I graduated I only want to write code that makes the world a better place
Mythical Man Month and Peopleware; don’t just learn how to be better, learn how shitty your management is, too!
Thanks, I'll check those out!