What's on your reading list?

What are you reading?  Need a recommendation?  Need motivation?

"The problem with being too busy to read is that you learn by experience (or by your men’s experience), i.e. the hard way. By reading, you learn through others’ experiences, generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men." ~ Gen. James Mattis¹

In a recent CNO's Rapid Innovation Cell (CRIC) Podcast, Mario Vulcano, instructor for our Information Warfare Basic Course (IWBC) was interviewed on a few topics centering around an endeavor titled, "Investing in Tomorrow's Leaders, Today".

Listen to the full podcast at the bottom off this post.

In the interview, Mr. Vulcano talks about a reading list that he has compiled from his own bookshelf finds in addition to the recommendations of many of our leaders.  The following, is that list:

• "Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire everyone to Take Action" by Simon Sinek
• "Turn The Ship around!: How to Create Leadership at every Level" by David Marquet
• "Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology" By Paul Glen
• "Neptune's Inferno" by James D. Hornfischer
• "Credibility" by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
• "The Leader's Checklist" by Michael Useem
• "Winners Never Cheat" by Jon M. Huntsman
• "The Art of Action" by Stephen Bungay
• "Brilliant Mistakes" by Paul J.H. Schoemaker
• "The On-Purpose Person" by Kevin W. McCarthy
• "Writing That Works" by Kenneth Roman
• "What the Plus!" by Guy Kawasaki
• "Greater Than Yourself" by Steve Farber
• "Known and Unknown" by Donald H. Rumsfeld
• "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" John C. Maxwell
• "Small Unit Leadership" Dandridge M. Malone
• "It's Your Ship" by Michael Abrashoff
• "American Admiralship: The Art of Naval Command" by Edgar F. Puryear
• "Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command" Adm Stavridis
• "Armed Forces Officer" DOD Printing
• "Lead On" by Adm Dave Oliver
• "The Habits series" Stephen Covey
• "Multiplies: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter" by Liz Wiseman
• "Linchpin: Are you Indispensable?" by Seth Godin
• "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carneqie
• "Joe Rochefort's Way" by Elliot Carlson

While the links above are to the books available through Amazon, you can find many of these books, as mentioned in the podcast, through the Navy's General Library Program², which is an AMAZING resource for e-books and audio books alike.

Great things are happening at IWBC.  Information Warfare Officers are getting a great beginning to their career in the community.  Give the full podcast³ a listen, it is worth your time.



References
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¹ http://www.businessinsider.com/viral-james-mattis-email-reading-marines-2013-5
² http://navy.lib.overdrive.com/
³ http://navycric.libsyn.com/episode-17-mario-vulcano