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My Bookshelf

These books shape my approach to product leadership, data solutions, and organizational culture. Each title has left a unique mark on how I plan, build, and collaborate.

Strategy and Business

Business Model Generation

Description: Provides a visual canvas for mapping key partners, cost structures, revenue streams, and user segments.

What I Learned: It helps me align product decisions with overarching business viability, ensuring each feature had a sustainable revenue logic.

Attribution: Strategyzer

Value Proposition Design

Description: Helps teams dive into customers’ pains, gains, and jobs to build offerings that truly resonate.

What I Learned: Rooting features in real user pains keeps us from chasing ‘nice-to-haves’—we tackle what genuinely matters first.

Attribution: Strategyzer

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

Description: Distinguishes solid strategies (diagnose, guide actions, focus resources) from hollow mission statements.

What I Learned: Start by identifying the real problem; otherwise, even the best-sounding plan won’t solve underlying issues.

Attribution: Crown Business / Penguin Random House

Playing to Win

Description: Shows how strategic choices—where to play, how to win—can make or break a product or company.

What I Learned: “It pushed me to define clear priorities and allocate resources toward the biggest opportunities, instead of spreading efforts too thin.”

Attribution: Harvard Business Review Press (2013)

Product and Innovation

Inspired

Description: Provides a visual canvas for mapping key partners, cost structures, revenue streams, and user segments.

What I Learned: It helps me align product decisions with overarching business viability, ensuring each feature had a sustainable revenue logic.

Attribution: Wiley

Empowered

Description: Helps teams dive into customers’ pains, gains, and jobs to build offerings that truly resonate.

What I Learned: Rooting features in real user pains keeps us from chasing ‘nice-to-haves’—we tackle what genuinely matters first.

Attribution: Wiley

Lean Startup

Description: Distinguishes solid strategies (diagnose, guide actions, focus resources) from hollow mission statements.

What I Learned: Start by identifying the real problem; otherwise, even the best-sounding plan won’t solve underlying issues.

Attribution: Crown Business

Continuous Discovery Habits

Description: Shows how strategic choices—where to play, how to win—can make or break a product or company.

What I Learned: “It pushed me to define clear priorities and allocate resources toward the biggest opportunities, instead of spreading efforts too thin.”

Attribution: Product Talk Publishing (2021)

User Story Mapping

Description: Shows how strategic choices—where to play, how to win—can make or break a product or company.

What I Learned: “It pushed me to define clear priorities and allocate resources toward the biggest opportunities, instead of spreading efforts too thin.”

Attribution: O’Reilly Media (2014)

Sprint

Description: Shows how strategic choices—where to play, how to win—can make or break a product or company.

What I Learned: “It pushed me to define clear priorities and allocate resources toward the biggest opportunities, instead of spreading efforts too thin.”

Attribution: Simon & Schuster (2016)

Leadership and Culture

High Impact Tools for Teams

Description: Provides collaborative frameworks for improved decision-making.

What I Learned: Spotting friction points early boosted transparency and resolved misalignments fast.

Attribution: Strategyzer

The Scout Mindset

Description: Urges unbiased observation and willingness to change beliefs based on new data.

What I Learned: Fostering intellectual honesty led to braver pivot decisions instead of stubbornly clinging to old assumptions.

Attribution: Portfolio/Penguin (2021)

No Rules Rules

Description: Explains how fewer policies and more trust can spark high ownership and innovation.

What I Learned: Breaking bureaucratic norms let me empower teams, boost accountability, and accelerate progress.

Attribution: Penguin Press (2020)

Who

Description: Focuses on hiring strategies that uncover top talent aligned with mission and values.

What I Learned: Building a team is more than skill-matching; hiring for cultural fit and shared vision is game-changing.

Attribution: Ballantine Books / Random House

Delivering Happiness

Description:Shows how a people-first culture can create long-term brand loyalty and success.

What I Learned: Investing in employee well-being isn't just nice—it's strategic for productivity, retention, and user satisfaction.

Attribution: Business Plus / Grand Central Publishing

Healthcare and Engineering

Healthcare Interoperability

Description: Details how to break data silos and ensure secure, effective sharing across healthcare systems.

What I Learned: Understanding regulatory constraints plus HL7 best practices helped me build a truly robust data platform.

Attribution: Springer

Fundamentals for Architecting Data Solutions

Description: Covers core components of reliable data architectures, from storage to pipelines.

What I Learned: Solid data engineering practices scale better than quick hacks—especially under tight SLAs.

Attribution: O’Reilly Media (2014)

Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Description: Explores ETL, real-time frameworks, and best practices for building large-scale pipelines.

What I Learned: Each step in the pipeline must be optimized for the specific data volume and compliance needs.

Attribution: O’Reilly Media (2014)

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Description: Guides on distributed systems, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.

What I Learned: Resilience and graceful failure are vital—especially in healthcare, where data can't just vanish mid-process.

Attribution: O’Reilly Media (2014)

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