The Leader's Bookshelf

The Leader's Bookshelf

The Leader's Bookshelf

The Leader's Bookshelf

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Overview

For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over two hundred active and retired four-star military officers about their reading habits and favorite books, asking each for a list of titles that strongly influenced their leadership skills and provided them with special insights that helped propel them to success in spite of the many demanding challenges they faced. The Leader‘s Bookshelf synthesizes their responses to identify the top fifty books that can help virtually anyone become a better leader. Each of the works—novels, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, management publications—are summarized and the key leadership lessons extracted and presented. Whether individuals work their way through the entire list and read each book cover to cover, or read the summaries provided to determine which appeal to them most, The Leader‘s Bookshelf will provide a roadmap to better leadership. Highlighting the value of reading in both a philosophical and a practical sense, The Leader‘s Bookshelf provides sound advice on how to build an extensive library, lists other books worth reading to improve leadership skills, and analyzes how leaders use what they read to achieve their goals. An efficient way to sample some of literature‘s greatest works and to determine which ones can help individuals climb the ladder of success, The Leader‘s Bookshelf is for anyone who wants to improve his or her ability to lead—whether in family life, professional endeavors, or within society and civic organizations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781682471791
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Publication date: 03/15/2017
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 666,219
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

A 1976 distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, ADM James Stavridis spent over thirty-five years on active service in the U.S. Navy. He commanded destroyers and a carrier strike group in combat, and served for seven years as a four-star admiral, culminating with four years as the sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander at NATO. He holds a PhD in international relations and was Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Admiral Stavridis has written six books and hundreds of articles on global security issues and leadership.

A former lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve with periods of active duty, R. Manning Ancell has worked in media for decades. The author of more than 200 articles in magazines, newspapers and journals, he has authored or co-authored six books, including Four-Star Leadership for Leaders and Who Will Lead? Senior Leadership in the United States Army. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia, with his wife.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Leadership by the Book 1

Chapter 2 Making Time for Reading 7

Chapter 3 The Leader's Bookshelf "Top 50" 15

1 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 16

2 Once an Eagle Anton Myrer 21

3 The Holy Bible, by multiple authors 25

4 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin 29

5 The Art of War Sun Tzu 35

6 The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme Sir John Keegan 39

7 We Were Soldiers Once … and Young Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) Joseph L. Galloway 43

8 Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam H. R. McMaster 48

9 On War Carl von Clausewitz 51

10 Nimitz E. B. Potter 57

11 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant 62

12 Crusade in Europe Dwight D. Eisenhower 67

13 Men against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War S. L. A. Marshall 70

14 The Last Lion-Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 William Manchester Paul Reid 74

15 Truman David McCullough 79

16 Infantry Attacks Erwin Rommel 82

17 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey 86

18 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 89

19 The Second World War Sir Winston Churchill 93

20 In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice during the Vietnam Years Jim and Sybil Stockdale 96

21 Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Bernard B. Fall 99

22 Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 vols.) Douglas Southall Freeman 105

23 Gates of Fire Steven Pressfield 109

24 Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times Donald T. Phillips 113

25 The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam 117

26 Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him Merle Miller 121

27 Soldier, Statesman, Peacemaker: Leadership Lessons from George C. Marshall Jack Uldrich 125

28 This Kind of War T. R. Fehrenbach 129

29 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 132

30 The Mask of Command Sir John Keegan 135

31 A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East David Fromkin 140

32 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean 143

33 Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History Robert D. Kaplan 146

34 Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) Jeff Shaara 151

35 Grant Takes Command Bruce Catton 155

36 Hope Is Not a Method: What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret.) Col. Michael V. Harper, USA (Ret.) 158

37 LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay Warren Kozak 162

38 Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West William H. Leckie 165

39 The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov 169

40 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 171

41 Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War Karl Marlantes 175

42 Patton: Ordeal and Triumph Ladislas Farago 179

43 Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War William R. Manchester 182

44 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 186

45 The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations Samuel P. Huntington 189

46 Master and Commander and the Other Sea Novels of Patrick O'Brian 192

47 The General, by C. S. Forester 195

48 Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 200

49 Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War Eric Larrabee 203

50 How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything Dov Seidman 207

Chapter 4 Reading Lists 211

Chapter 5 Writing and Publishing: The Blueprint for Success 217

Chapter 6 What Are Young Leaders Reading? 225

Chapter 7 Building a Personal Library 236

Chapter 8 Reading and Leading: The Big Lessons 250

Afterword 259

Notes 267

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