I'm not a SWE, but I will say often when these types of posts come up, people throw in "work on your management/people skills!" - even if you never manage, interpersonal skills in the work place can be just as useful as any hard skills. Here are three books I recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fab...

https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Insp...

https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Yourself-Measure-Clayton-Chr...

Good luck on your journey, the fact that you're even asking these things is a great sign. :)

Not sure if these count as textbooks by most peoples measures, but they have been textbooks for me.

[1]Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

[2]The Wal-Mart Triumph: Inside the World’s #1 Company

[3]Guerilla Marketing

[4]The Lords of Strategy

[5]Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

[6] The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

[7]The Deming Management Method

[8]Creativity Inc.

[9]The Wisdom of Teams

[10]On Communication

[11]On Managing Yourself

[12]The Art of Facilitation

[13]Death by Meeting

[14]Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

[15]Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

1. https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Fac... 2. https://www.amazon.ca/Wal-Mart-Triumph-Inside-Worlds-Company... 3. https://www.amazon.com/Guerilla-Marketing-Inexpensive-Strate... 4. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591397820?ref_=cm_sw_r_awd... 5. http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Revise... 6. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000079XXQ 7. http://www.amazon.com/Deming-Management-Method-Mary-Walton/d... 8. https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Insp... 9. https://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Teams-High-Performance-Org... 10. https://www.amazon.com/Communication-featured-Necessary-Pers... 11. https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Yourself-Measure-Clayton-Chr... 12. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Facilitation-Essentials-Meetings-... 13. https://www.amazon.com/Death-Meeting-Leadership-Solving-Busi... 14. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Business-Leadership-Making-Meani... 15. https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Takers-Finance-American-Busine...

On the general "Creativity" industry (with a focus on animation, but it applies to many similar ones): https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Insp...

Written by the president of Pixar, and contains many anecdotes about Pixar, and challenges of animation and general creative work.

That Grove book is on my TODO list. Thanks for the reminder. As real leadership / management books go, I thought Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull was both interesting and entertaining.

https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Insp...

Here are some great books for that:

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Facilitation-Essentials-Meetings-... https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Insp... https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fab... https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Fac... https://www.amazon.com/Communication-featured-Necessary-Pers...

Ed Catmull, Co-Founder of Pixar, wrote a great book about building and running creative businesses in general, and Pixar in particular[1]. Well worth a read.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspi...