Recommended Professional Reading
Listed below are some excellent books that I have found useful over the years.
If you are not constantly learning and improving, you are regressing!
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, 1936
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek, 2009
Clark of St. Vith: The Sergeant’s General by Wiliam Donohue Ellis, 1974
The West Point Way of Leadership by COL Larry Donnithorne, 1994
The Ugly American by William Lederer, 1958
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, 1989
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis, 1989
Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden, 2005
Winning With People by John Maxwell, 2005
Leading With the Heart by Mike Krzyzewski, 2000
The 5 Levels of Leadership by John C. Maxwell, 2011
The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles, 1910
Be-Know-Do: Leadership the Army Way by General Eric Shinseki (USA, Ret) and Frances Hesselbein, 2004
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997
From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership by Harry M. Kraemer, 2011
Good to Great by Jim Collins, 2001
It Worked for Me, In Life and Leadership by General (USA, Ret) Colin Powell (with Tony Koltz), 2013
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen In Organizations by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (5th Ed. 2012 Josey-Bass Publishers)
Leading at a Higher Level by Ken Blanchard et al, 2010
Principle-Centered Leadership by Stephen Covey, 1992
Reinvent: A Leader’s Playbook for Serial Success by Fred Hassan, 2013
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen Covey, 2006
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal (USA, Ret) with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell, 2015
Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O’Toole with Patricia Ward Biederman, 2008
The Long Gray Line by Rick Atkinson, 1989
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield, 2005
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born—that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
—Warren Bennis
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