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...

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 ...

[Comes With Access To Your Personalized Companion Course] + A Digital Prompt Book + Beta Access to My Upcoming Book 📅 9 ruthless days. 💰 0 tech degree. Designed to help AI Beginners who are afraid of code, but yearn to have passive income with AI. ❌ No filler, no ethics panel, no reposted blog articles. ✅ Author is a REAL human who has already burned through all the shiny objects. ✅ Action > Theory STOP. Before you spend another dollar on AI-gnerated fluff courses or sink in all the free advice that goes nowhere... Read this. I PAID 10437 DOLLARS FOR OVERLY-HYPED AI COURSES SO ...

With an introduction read by the author himself, Mark Pincus, and acclaimed narrator Fred Sanders, comes an unconventional, hands-on guide to turning ideas into products that matter—and that people love—from the legendary Silicon Valley pioneer, founder of Zynga, and creator of Stanford...

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.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

No single factor—not sales, marketing, finance, strategy, or operations—has more influence over the ultimate success of an organization than its culture. Yet for many leaders, culture remains frustratingly vague: everyone knows it matters, but few know exactly what to do about it. In Culture by Design, David J. Friedman cuts through the fog and provides a clear, practical roadmap for intentionally creating a high-performing culture.

FREE BONUS: This large-format (8"×10") Workbook includes a 62-page Interactive downloadable PDF Companion with printable Worksheets, updated every 6 months to keep pace with the rapid changes in AI. Includes Hamza Khalid's Claude '26 update. Stop Playing With AI -Start Engineering Results Most people use AI like a search engine with a personality. They type a question, get a generic answer, and wonder why it never quite does what they need. This is not that kind of book AI Prompt Engineering is a hands-on workshop for consultants, freelancers, entrepreneurs, and business operators who need...

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...

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 ...

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. From an indispensable voice on China, comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and...