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Recommend reading if you've just started managing people
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based ManagementHard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Buy new: £12.23 / Used from: £7.50
Why many commonly practiced management activities are wrong, and often dangerous
Teamwork: What Must Go Right/What Can Go Wrong (SAGE Series in Interpersonal Communication)Teamwork: What Must Go Right/What Can Go Wrong (SAGE Series in Interpersonal Communication) by Carl E. Larson
Buy new: £24.00 / Used from: £4.99
Short, if slightly dry, book on the fundamentals of teamwork
Peopleware: Productive Projects and TeamsPeopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco
Buy used from: £43.95
Especially if you're managing software developmers / tech teams
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don'tGood to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: £13.89 / Used from: £9.81
An awesome book. Evidence based and a good read too
The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials)The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) by Peter F. Drucker
Buy used from: £8.85
Drucker was writing about managing knowledge workers in the 1950s, and is still relevant
Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable EntrepreneurMatsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur by John P. Kotter
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £4.54
The story of a remarkable, but not famous, man
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest ManufacturerThe Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey Liker
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £7.50
The principles and the concepts, if not the specific practices, are applicable to all industries
The Powers to Lead: Soft, Hard, and SmartThe Powers to Lead: Soft, Hard, and Smart by Joseph Nye
Buy new: £8.71 / Used from: £4.99
How smart managers mix telling with persuading and influencing
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others DieMade to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
Buy used from: £13.69
How to make your ideas stick. Good help on how to communicate effectively
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our CompanyThe HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard
Buy used from: £3.04
Light reading, but still interesting. The story behind Hewlett Packard