Once again, more excellent leadership books added from the Reading List (Updates). Remember, I’m only interested in the best of the best books … each read by me and recommended after a thorough review.
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19 Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership. Edgar F. Puryear Jr.
24/7: The First Person Y Must Lead is You. Rebecca “Becky” Halstead
A Higher Standard: Leadership, Strategies from America’s First Female Four-Star General. Ann Dunwoody
America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder. Bret Stephens
American Soldier. General Tommy Franks
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. Stephen E. Ambrose
Becoming a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day. Joel Osteen
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It. James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
Cyrus the Great. Jacob Abbott
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. Robert Gates
Endless War: Middle-Eastern vs. Western Civilization. Ralph Peters
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. Marcella Hazan
Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America. Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney
Finding a Way to Win. Bill Parcels
Flags of our Fathers. James Bradley
From Pusan to Panmunjom: Wartime Memoirs of the Republic of Korea’s First Four-Star General. Paik Sun Yup
Front Burner: Al Qaeda’s Attack on the USS Cole. Kirk S. Lippold, USN (Ret)
Funding Evil. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t. Donald Mitchell
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. Paul Tough
How Successful People Think. John C. Maxwell
It Worked for Me. Colin Powell
Joe Torre’s Ground Rules for Winners. Joe Torre
Lead On: A Practical Approach to Leadership. Rear Admiral Dave Oliver, Jr.
Lincoln and His Generals. Thomas Harry Williams
Lincoln the Unknown. Dale Carnegie
Make Today Count. John C. Maxwell
Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War. S.L.A. Marshall
My Share of the Task: A Memoir. Stanley McChrystal
Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership. Edgar Puryear
Outliers: The Story of Success. Malcolm Gladwell
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed. Jason L. Riley
Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life. Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker
Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life. Eric Greitens
Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life. Donald Rumsfeld
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy. Ian W. Toll
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Simon Sinek
Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington. Sharyl Attkisson
Strategic Failure: How President Obama’s Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military Amateurism Have Imperiled America. Mark Moyar
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Stanley McChrystal, et al.
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. John C. Maxwell
The Age of the Unthinkable. Joshua Cooper Ramo
The Art of Political War and Other Radical Pursuits. David Horowitz
The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign December 1862-July 1863. Shelby Foote
The Civil War and American Art. Eleanor Jones Harvey
The Coldest Winter. David Halberstam
The Compound Effect: Jumpstart your Income, Your Life, Your Success. Darren Hardy
The Essential 55. Ron Clark
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today. Thomas E. Ricks
The Greatest Generation. Tom Brokaw
The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander. Pete Blaber
The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Professional. Edited by Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich
The Professional of Arms. John Winthrop Hackett
The Spirit to Serve: Marriott’s Way by J.W. Marriott, Jr. and Kathi Ann Brown
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. William Easterly
Thunderbolt: From the Battle of the Bulge to Vietnam and Beyond. Lewis Sorley
Turn the Ship Around. L. David Marquet
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Laura Hillenbrand
Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance. Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker
Unknown Iacocca. Peter Wyden
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter
We Were Soldiers Once … and Young: Ia Drang—the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
What the Dog Saw: and other Adventures. Malcolm Gladwell
Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal. Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O’Reilly III
Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization. John Wooden and Steve Jamison
Work Hard, Study … and Keep out of Politics. James A. Baker, III and Steve Fiffer