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Other Engineering Leadership and Management Resources

Below I’ve listed a number of books, sites, resources, and other material that engineering leaders and managers can use to help improve themselves.

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Books

Below, I mention a number of my favourite books. You can get any one of these books for free in an audio version with Audiobooks.com’s 30-day trial, if you’re the auditory type like I am.

• I’m a huge fan of Jim Collins. His books, including Good to Great, and Great by Choice are excellent reads for anyone interested in business and leadership.
• Anthony Fasano works as a full-time engineering career coach. His book, Engineer Your Own Success, is an excellent resource for any engineer looking to boost their career.
• The Trusted Advisor is all about how to model professional relationships after real relationships. It provides some excellent advice, and is especially pertinent to anyone in consulting.
• Getting Things Done by David Allen is among the best reads in personal productivity out there.
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is a classic book on how to reorient your life to, well, be more effective.
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is an excellent resource that is able to really dig into what exactly leadership is all about.
• Eat That Frog! is a collection of tips and life hacks that will help you get more done in less time.
• Start Finishing by Charlie Gilkey is a great read on how to finish the brilliant projects that you start.

Courses and Continuing Education

• PDHEngineer.com – Thousands of discipline specific courses for engineers. You can use these courses to satisfy PDH requirements as well.
• Coursera.org is my favourite massive open online course provider.

Productivity

• My NEW favourite online to-do list – Asana.
• Never forget anything again with Evernote.
• Skitch is a product in the Evernote family for annotations and markups. I’ve started using this for schematics markups, and it’s awesome.

Blogs

• The Engineering Career Coach blog by Anthony Fasano and co. is an excellent resource for engineering career development and leadership skills.
• More Than Engineering with Jeff Perry is a great resource for career advice specifically for engineers.
• The Engineering Mentor with Sol Rosenbaum is for younger engineers who want to gain the non-engineering skills you need for engineering success.
• Ash Norton’s blog has great content for engineers who are striving to improve their leadership skills.
• The “At Work” section of the IEEE Spectrum blog has great career and educational articles.
• Engineering.com. The name pretty much speaks for itself. I contribute to the jobs section of this site regularly.
• David Allen’s GTD Times Blog is an excellent resource for personal productivity.
• Engineer Your Life is a site and blog that Erica Lee Garcia runs. She’s an engineer, a coach, an entrepreneur, and full of awesome ideas.

Podcasts and Video Channels

• The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – The single best podcast out there dedicated to helping engineers.
• Teach the Geek is Neil Thompson’s channel dedicated to helping STEM professionals develop their public speaking skills.
• The 1% Engineer Show is hosted by Jake Voorhees and covers skills engineers need to succeed.
• The Harvard Business Review IdeaCast is pure gold, and is very often leadership-oriented. Check it out!

Other Sites

• Eng-Tips is an awesome forum to get your technical questions answered by other engineers.