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Off the top of my head:

  - Peter Drucker - The Effective Executive
  - Andy Grove - High Output Management
  - Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month
  - Marty Cagan - Inspired

Folks probably have a few others (and I'd love to hear them), but these are the ones I often recommend (and reread myself).

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"Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position" and "Out of the Crisis" - W. E. Deming

"Workplace Management" - Taiichi Ohno

"Lean Six Sigma" - Jeffrey Ries

But aside from these "management philosophies", there's also standard industry/role practices that companies don't require their employees to implement, and when they do it's only enough to say they technically did it. Often the employees don't even know the standards exist. It's embarrassing.

> standard industry/role practices

Agreed; my example would be all the basic things in "High Output Management" — especially the performance management pieces.

What'd you have in mind?

Add in:

  - Dale Carnegie - How to win friends and influence people
  - Jocko Willink - The Dichotomy of Leadership

and you've got an MBA in how to lead people.

Jocko's Extreme Ownership and Leadership Strategies and Tactics are also very good.

I would also recommend The Goal by Eliyahu M Goldratt as an excellent primer on the Theory of Constraints as an effective management philosophy.

Most people recommend The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and other books in that ilk, but I've found far more value in these three books alone than every other management theory book I've read, combined.

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