Elle E. Benami, MSc

Bookshelf

Welcome to my virtual bookshelf! These books have inspired and informed my approach to work and life. Click on a category or scroll down.

Startups & Entrepreneurship

Marketing & Category Design

Lean & Agile

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

by Jeff Sutherland and J.J. Sutherland

The Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future

by J.J. Sutherland

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Business

by David J. Anderson

Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production

by Taiichi Ohno

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer

by Jeffrey K. Liker

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit

by Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck

Startups & Entrepreneurship

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

by Tony Hsieh

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf

Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup

by Bill Aulet

Rework

by by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

That Will Never Work

by Marc Randolph

Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

by Jenny Blake

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from their Founding Entrepreneurs

by David S. Kidder

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh

Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

by Jim Collins

The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry

by John Warrilow

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

by Safi Bachall

Leadership

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

by Peter M. Senge

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

by Adam M. Grant, PhD

The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace

by Ron Friedman, PhD

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

by Amy C. Edmondson

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David J. Epstein

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, David Behr, and George Spafford

Product

INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

by Marty Cagan

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

by Dan Olsen

Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

Change By Design

by Tim Brown

Writing Effective Use Cases

by Alistair Cockburn

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development

by Mike Cohn

Agile Estimating and Planning

by Mike Cohn

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

by Jeff Patton with Peter Economy

Marketing & Category Design

The Context Marketing Revolution: How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media

by Matthew Sweezey

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lockhead, and Kevin Maney

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

by Jonah Berger

Sales

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

by Daniel H. Pink

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation

by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson

The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results

by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, Pat Spenner, and Nick Toman

The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty

by Matthew Dixon, Nick Toman, and Rick Delisi

SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Today's Frazzled Customers

by Jill Konrath

Selling to Big Companies

by Jill Konrath

SPIN Selling

by Neil Rackham

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