Look for all these at Amazon: Death March PeopleWare Debugging the development process Rapid Development Software Project Survival guide If you are a CTO

Look for all these at Amazon: Death March PeopleWare Debugging the development process Rapid Development Software Project Survival guide If you are a CTO you should probably read them all. The most important book for software development management is: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli The problems that you describe in your post however are solved partly by book reading but mostly through years of experience and toughening up of your character in the right ways.