Here are a few books Menlo keeps in their library.
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Getting Naked — Lencioni
- Design of Everyday Things
- The Inmates are Running the Asylum
- Creativity at Work
- Experience Economy
- Zingerman’s Guide to Giving Great Service
- Zingerman’s Guide to Good Leading
- Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck
- Planning Extreme Programming by Kent Beck
- What Clients Love
- First, Break all the Rules
- Small Giants — Companies that chose to be great instead of Big
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
- Management by Peter Drucker
- Refactoring — Martin Fowler
- Design Patterns
- Blink
- Innovate like Edison
- The E-Myth Revisited
- Tipping Point
- Monopolize your Marketplace
- IDEO Method Cards
- Edison, a Life of Invention
- The Click Moment
- The Medici Effect
- Art of Innovation
- Ten Faces of Innovation
- Changing the Way we Change
- The Toyota Way
- Crossing the Chasm
- Death of Competition
- Crucial Confrontations
- Crucial Conversations
- Influencer
- A Whole New Mind
- Working at Inventing
- PMBOK
- Building the Bridge As You Walk On It
- Deep Change
- The Highest Goal
- Diffusion of Innovations
- Maverick
- The Fifth Discipline
- Start with Why
- Bury my Heart at Conference Room
- A Company of Leaders
- The Great Game of Business
- Big Brands, Big Trouble
- Differentiate or Die
- A Lapsed Anarchist’s Approach to Being a Better Leader, Building a Great Business
And some suggested TED Talks — Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, Learning from a Barefoot Movement by Bunker Roy, How Great Leaders Inspire Action by Simon Sinek.