Book recommendation: Measure what matters
Management techniques come and go, but at the core of management is an understanding of <i>systems/process</i> and of <i>human behavior</i>. A really good book on management is Andy Grove's "High Output Management" [1], which to me strikes a good balance. It's a fairly popular book in SV and probably a known quantity to most HN readers. It's also notable in that it wasn't written by some management guru or business prof who's never managed anyone in their lives (i.e. Drucker), but instead drawn from the experiences of a CEO of a significant company (Intel). The blue-collar equivalent is Plain Talk by F. Ken Iverson, former CEO of NuCor Steel. [2] (not the author of APL -- that's Ken E. Iverson :)<p>[1] TLDR <a href="https://medium.com/@iantien/top-takeaways-from-andy-grove-s-high-output-management-2e0ecfb1ea63" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@iantien/top-takeaways-from-andy-grove-s-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1450374.Plain_Talk" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1450374.Plain_Talk</a>