Helpful Books:

• Eric Ries, “The Lean Startup”
• Renée Mauborgne, “Blue Ocean Strategy”
• Steve Krug, “Don’t Make Me Think”
• Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
• Don Norman, “The Design of Everyday Things”
• Clay Christensen, “The Innovator’s Dilemma”
• Brian de Haaff, “Lovability: How to Build a Business That People Love and Be Happy Doing It”
• Teresa Torres, “Continuous Discovery Habits” - See also “6 Guiding Principles for Effective Product Discovery” on ProductTalk
• Marty Cagan’s books - take with a grain of salt, and quickly realize when it’s appropriate to break out of his strict suggested frameworks. I recommend Teresa Torres above first. Marty can be… divisive in the PM community ;) 

Online Resources

• The Clever PM blog - older blog, but still a great resource + list of additional reading
• Growth.Design - Free product case studies, presented in a friendly, fun way.
• Khan Academy’s Economics basics - build a foundation in economics and economic theory
• CodeAcademy SQL courses - SQL and Data languages are often a requirement in Product Management roles.
• Reddit r/ProductManagement - an actually helpful online community of PMs from all different experiences and business types.
• O’Reilly Book Playlist compiled by the community
• MindTheProduct - a community from Pendo - can often be super self-promotion-ey
• Lenny’s Podcast - a free podcast (& Newsletter) from Lenny Rachitsky 
• ProductCon - from ProductSchool - free quarterly virtual conferences/webinars
• Aakash Gupta - Free + Paid newsletter. Extremely valuable, highly recommended

Paid Courses:

• Udemy “How to be a product manager”
• GeneralAssembly is expensive bootcamp type courses, but highly rated.

   If you have LinkedIn subscription, they have some great Product Management tracks:

• Product Management First Steps
• Transitioning to Product Management
• Getting Started as an Agile Project Manager