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Every book Marty Cagan recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Marty Cagan has recommended or discussed 8 books on podcasts, as of March 10, 2024.
- Marty Cagan has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of March 10, 2024.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of March 10, 2024.
- The 3 books Marty Cagan has mentioned in the most episodes, not counting Marty Cagan's own, as of March 10, 2024: Build, Continuous Discovery Habits and No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Marty Cagan aired on March 10, 2024.
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Marty Cagan’s most recommended books
- Build by Tony Fadell
- Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention by Reed Hastings
- Sprint by Jake Knapp
- What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban
- Working Backwards by Colin Bryar
Marty Cagan recommended and discussed several books during his appearance on Lenny's Podcast, focusing largely on product management, leadership, and human behavior. He singled out Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits as a standout text among the many books he was asked to review, noting that he actively encouraged everyone to read it. Cagan also recommended Tony Fadell's Build, praising its perspective on applying traditional product models to hardware devices. Furthermore, he recommended What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban, describing the book as provocative and noting that he admired the author's unique way of thinking. Alongside these recommendations, Cagan discussed his own written works during the podcast. He described Empowered as a book dedicated to product leadership, vision, strategy, team topology, and coaching. He also spoke about Inspired, explaining that it serves product teams and managers by focusing on product discovery. Reflecting on the writing process for Inspired, Cagan noted that he learned it was insufficient for product teams alone to do their jobs effectively, as leadership must also fulfill its responsibilities to ensure success. Through these selections and reflections, Cagan underscored the importance of comprehensive product strategies and strong organizational leadership.
Books Marty Cagan recommended or discussed
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Build
Recommended“I love the the new book from Tony Fidel called build It's a Wonderful book and he's describing the product model but for Hardware to devices and his perspective was fabulous”
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Continuous Discovery Habits
Recommended“most of the books I see I'm asked to review a lot of the books I love it when it's an exception and it's like wow that's a good book Teresa torres's book continuous Discovery habits good book”
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EMPOWERED
Discussed“and then uh Empower it's really about product leadership Vision strategy team topology coaching it's all about that”
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Inspired
Discussed“hopefully you know is for product teams and product managers it's really a book about product Discovery and then uh Empower”
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
Recommended“You can read "No Rules, Rules" from Netflix. You can see how that's done.”
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Sprint
Recommended“Another good book is "Sprint", you know, Jake Knapps book, that also will hold your hand. Now that's a particular technique, a whole 400 pages on one technique, but it is a good technique.”
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What's Our Problem?
Recommended“another one I really liked is um do you know Tim Urban the guy behind wait but why absolutely I just love the way this guy thinks and he wrote a book called what's our problem”
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Working Backwards
Recommended“But you can read books like "Working Backwards" from Amazon describes what I talk about all the time, but it's using Amazon terms.”
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Books Marty Cagan wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group) | Lenny's Podcast | 2024-03-10 | 6 |
| The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group | Lenny's Podcast | 2022-08-21 | 7 |
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“now I would argue that some of my favorite examples in fact in the new book we highlighted a classic sales-driven financial services company moving to the product model”
“so the goal of transform was unlike the other books was to share how to actually change there are techniques in transformed as well but there are transformation techniques”
“unlike the other books the other books are written for people like us right and your audience and my audience you know they're product people these are written for non-product people too”
“where can folks find your book when is it available where can they reach out if they want to follow up on stuff and how can listeners be useful to you well yeah the the book should be available worldwide”
“And one of... to answer your question, you know, in my own writing and in fact in the recent book, "Empowered", I share my theory for why there's such a big difference between the best and the rest.”
“So that's why I wrote the book "Inspired" was to share the most popular techniques. There are other books too that talk about those techniques for discovery, but, you know, read something, learn the techniques.”