I’m not in a management position, myself, but lately I’ve been taking the lead in more and more initiatives. Nearly all of my existing experience being from the perspective of an individual contributor, so I had never really given much thought to what’s actually involved when moving beyond that stage.
With that in mind, I found the following three books to be quite helpful:
Managing Humans touched on a lot of topics I found quite good, especially about the importance of one-on-one’s and giving useful feedback. It grazed the surface of a lot of topics and was a tad repetitive at times, but I overlooked a lot of that once I realized (about a third of the way through) that the author was actually the author of the Rands In Repose blog, which I was a big fan of early in my career.