Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Flipboard 0 When you think about the personality types and professional backgrounds that most often lead someone to the CEO role, you don’t think about introverted tech guys like me. Over the past decade, I have worked systematically and diligently to overcome that bias by becoming a leader myself. One of the ways I burnished my skills was by reading widely in strategy, leadership, and managing people. Here are the books that have been the most influential on my journey to becoming CEO of Upwork: Anticipate. The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success by Ronald Brown The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Fox Cabane Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble and David Farley CustomerCentric Selling by Michael T. Bosworth and John R. Holland The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win by Steve Blank Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale by Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, and Barry O’Reilly Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World’s Best Companies by Robert B. Miller and Stephen E. Heiman with Tad Tuleja Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters What are your favorite strategy, leadership, and management books? Let me know in the comments. Twitter Tweet Facebook Share Email This article originally appeared on Upwork and has been republished with permission.Find out how to syndicate your content with B2C Join our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Author: James Spillane James is a BSc Physics grad, attending Imperial College London and becoming interested in cryptocurrency shortly after. His previously published work can be found on Rakeback.com and more recently InsideBitcoins.com and DeFicoins.io. Currently James is a content editor and writer covering Bitcoin and DeFi related news, as well as enjoying … View full profile ›More by this author:Cryptocurrency Fan Tokens Are The Top Crypto Gainers TodayMetaverse P2E Games Token IBAT Lists Today on Pancakeswap 16:00 UTC / GMTBC.GAME Releases An NFT, The Degen Pass