All Change!: The Project Leader's Secret Handbook

While ALL CHANGE!/The Project Manager's Secret Handbook has a great series of steps for properly managing your projects (it takes up the reverse half of the book), Obeng's focus is on helping you get the right thinking on your project. No easy answers like in most management books, but ways to approach projects and manage them to a successful completion. The first half, ALL CHANGE!, is actually a narrative about a project manager coming to understand why his projects always seem to go wrong. I'd compare this to Mythical Man-Month in how much it shaped my thinking.