Resources

Leadership reading list

A collection of essential books that meaningfully affected our team

Daniel Pupius

How to lead a distributed team

4 tips on what to do when your team is suddenly split across two or more locations

Jennifer Dennard

11 ways our brains trip us up at work

Understanding how cognitive biases affect us in the workplace

Dan Pupius

How to build trust in the workplace and succeed

Trust in your colleagues is a great motivator. Here are 6 actionable strategies to build trust on your team.

The first-time manager—5 practical tips for navigating the challenges of managing people

What to consider before you embark on a new career as a manager

Kaloyan Yankulov

The essential guide to the 22 most common leadership styles

Get to know the 22 types of leadership from the 3 most common personality profiling tools. Which of the leadership types is yours?

Kaloyan Yankulov

3 new approaches to improving teamwork in the workplace

A guide on how to promote effective teamwork on your team and in the workplace

Understanding and learning to manage your micromanaging boss

5 reasons your micromanaging boss is micromanaging you and how to work toward greater autonomy

6 lessons in leadership learned from Plato’s Elevate Summit

Tips and advice for building and managing high-performance product and engineering teams

Braden Kowitz

The design leadership journey

An interview with Mia Blume, CEO of Design Dept.

Braden Kowitz

Why company culture matters to leadership

An interview with Replicated CEO Grant Miller

Michael Boykin

Our world is LGBTQIA. Your workplace should be too

Ellen Pao on how leaders can build an inclusive workplace

Ellen Pao

How to build an inclusive work environment by holding space

3 tips anyone can use to build a more inclusive team

Jennifer Dennard

How to prevent workplace burnout on your team

With burnout now classified as a medical condition by the World Health Organization, how should you better support your team?

Why individual OKRs don’t work

Find your focus, establish context, set priorities as a team

Building bridges to overcome organizational silos

Why busting silos might not be the best approach to getting your teams well-aligned

Overcoming the 3 most common challenges in managing remote teams

Key takeaways from Range’s mini-conference on leading remote and distributed teams

How to take action on engagement survey results

4 steps to improve employee engagement after your pulse survey

Jennifer Dennard

5 tips for building stronger remote teams

How to overcome the challenges of managing a distributed workforce

Scaling without losing your team's connectedness

How to keep that small-team feeling as your team scales

Michael Boykin

How to give better feedback at work

Improving feedback through a collaborative approach

Jennifer Dennard

Understanding complexity

A short primer on why complex systems require different ways of acting and making decisions

Dan Pupius

How many reports should a manager have?

Balancing the desire for flat organizations with the realities of effective management

Daniel Pupius

When you don’t know how to fix your product

Conquering uncertainty in product management

Braden Kowitz

Leadership is knowing when to let go

Micromanaging and tightly controlling your team will disempower them and erode initiative taking.

Dan Pupius

The importance of a good operating cadence

The power of good process and why it’s important to nail your operational cadence

Dan Pupius

Becoming a better manager

with Andrew Sandler of Grand Rounds

Braden Kowitz

5 questions a manager should ask themselves every week

Leaders, help your team succeed by asking yourself these 5 questions every week

Dan Pupius