What are some good books for a new CTO to read?

I'm not a CTO (yet?) but I've begin to grok some of the stuff involved in managing teams of engineers. 'The Manager's Path' by Camille Fournier was really helpful. Lots of very practical advice for all sorts of technical leaders: senior ICs, front-line managers, managers-of-managers, CTOs.

Daniel Jarjoura recently published a fairly complete reading list that might be useful: https://techleadership.substack.com/p/the-product-leader-rea...

Some books I’ve read and enjoyed and/or found useful: The hard thing about hard things, the innovator’s dilemma, High output management, Accelerate, The Phoenix project (though I much prefer The Goal)

"Jocko Willink - Extreme Ownership" is a good start. I've got his older books and newest book on my desk to read next. Good leadership skills and perspectives etc.

Getting to Yes; Exactly What to Say; The Coaching Habit

These are a few that I read and found useful. I'm not a CTO, just an intermediate developer.

I've put this list together for Tech Leads, but the non-technical parts of it are very much relevant for CTOs as well: techleadcompass.com

Peopleware, Evolutionary architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Ship It

Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber

Radical Candor is great!