Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

A collection of interviews and case studies across senior product leaders — Cagan, Norton, Harding, and many others — organised around the practical problems product leaders face. The format (interviews rather than a single authored argument) is both its strength and its limit: you get a wide range of voices, but less coherent argument. For product direction it is a useful survey, particularly for product managers thinking about the transition to leadership. Read it alongside Cagan's Empowered for a single sustained argument on the same question. A good book for the shelf, not the canon.