Engineering Business

Learn how to successfully emerge from complex crisis conditions with this practical, comprehensive guide. "A book I wish I’d had in difficult times.” —General Stanley McChrystal, US Army (Ret) & Co-Founder and CEO, McChrystal Group When the system breaks, what do you do? You're in the...

High performance expert Paul Rulkens provides the inside advice you need to accelerate your career as a business leader with an engineering background - from building on your unique strengths to achieving big business goals. How Successful Engineers Become Great Business Leaders is full of thought-provoking insights, practical applications, and pragmatic techniques to help you get everything you can out of everything you have.

Transform Your Understanding of AI from Confusion to Confidence While millions panic about being left behind by AI, the revolution has barely begun. We're at the 1995 - equivalent of the internet age - and understanding AI now puts you ahead of 90% of the workforce. This practical guide cuts through the ChatGPT hype to reveal what's really happening with artificial intelligence. You'll discover the crucial difference between generative AI (tools that create content) and agentic AI (systems that make autonomous decisions) - a distinction that changes everything about how you evaluate, adopt,...

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CLAUDE COWORK — NOW FULLY UPDATED FOR DISPATCH, COMPUTER USE, PLUGINS, AND EVERYTHING ANTHROPIC HAS SHIPPED SINCE LAUNCH. Claude Cowork launched in January 2026 and changed what's possible for knowledge workers. Delegate real tasks to AI: organising files, creating documents, extracting data from receipts, conducting research — all without writing a single line of code. This handbook was the first comprehensive guide to Cowork. This second edition brings it fully up to date with a product that has moved fast. Since launch, Anthropic has shipped Windows support, a...

Getting to the good solutions of complex management challenges can make the difference between fulfillment and frustration for teams, and, ultimately, the success or failure of companies. Will Larson's An Elegant Puzzle orients around the particular challenges of engineering management - from sizing teams to technical debt to succession planning - and provides a path to the good solutions.

How to Use ChatGPT Prompts to Make an Extra $1,000/Month in 2025 Your Step-by-Step Guide to Earning Online with AI—No Tech Skills Required What if I told you the secret to making an extra $1,000 a month is already in your hands? Not in a fancy degree. Not in a complicated system. But in something you’ve used your whole life—words. And when combined with the power of ChatGPT, your words can unlock real money-making opportunities starting right now. You've heard the buzz: AI is taking over. Jobs are being automated. The future is changing fast.But here’s the truth no one’s telling ...

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well—or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills. This in-depth book shows you how to understand your role, manage your time, master strategic thinking, and set the standard for technical work.

Twenty years ago, Joel Salatin wrote You Can Farm, which has launched thousands of farm entrepreneurs around the world. With another 20 years of experience under his belt, bringing him to the half-century mark as a full-time farmer, he decided to build on that foundation with a sequel, a graduate-level curriculum. Everyone who reads (or listens to), and enjoys that previous work, will benefit from this additional information.

What happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids? You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently...

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line. Meanwhile, someone with half your skills just automated their entire workflow, launched a side income stream, and did it all with the same tool sitting open in your browser right now. The difference wasn't talent. It was knowing how to talk to Claude like a professional instead of guessing like a tourist.

At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior software engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At the career level, your company's career ladder won't require that you work towards the next promotion; being promoted further is an exception rather than expected. This is also when many engineers are first given an opportunity to move into engineering management.

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

AI Prompt Writing Handbook Artificial Intelligence is changing how the world works. But there is one critical skill most people still don’t understand: How to communicate effectively with AI. The difference between weak results and powerful AI output often comes down to one thing — the prompt. The AI Prompt Writing Handbook is a practical step-by-step guide that teaches you how to write powerful prompts for today’s most important AI tools: • ChatGPT • Gemini • Microsoft Copilot • Claude • Perplexity • Midjourney • Grok Instead of vague theory, this book shows you exactly...

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

Let’s Get Real—Running Your Own Business Isn’t Always Pretty. Some days you’re a marketing genius. Other days, you’re accountant, customer service, and tech support—before lunch. Sound familiar? The truth: It’s easy to feel stretched thin when your to-do list grows faster than you can cross things off—and even harder to juggle it all without losing that personal magic your business is built on. Good news: You don’t need a PhD in productivity or another “guru” pep talk. What you need are real-world, proven prompts and tools that plug right into your business routine—...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general...

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Prompt Engineering Mastery The Ultimate Guide to Crafting AI Prompts for Every Occasion The Last Book You’ll Ever Need on ChatGPT and AI Prompting In late 2022, the world quietly flipped. ChatGPT arrived—not as a clunky search tool, but as a remarkably articulate, creative partner. Yet the real power wasn’t just the model. It was the prompt. This book reveals the blueprint for turning vague asks into precise, repeatable, astonishingly useful results. With Prompt Engineering Mastery, you won’t just “use” ChatGPT—you’ll direct it. Why This Book Is Different Most guides offer ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Construction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport infrastructure we all use, the hospitals we rely on – all of it was built and enabled by construction. In Mega Builds, YouTube...

This audiobook is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years–and then some more. This audiobook follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers.