The Leader's Bookshelf
Written by James Stavridis and R. Manning Ancell
Narrated by Bob Souer
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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 road map 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.
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- shrike58Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whatever else this book is, it's very much a self-help book, as the interstices between the book suggestions are filled with little recommendations for keep one's self fit in body and spirit. Besides that you can call this a snapshot of the mental furniture of a generation of flag-rank officers in the U.S. military, who, by this point in time, have either left the service or are soon to do so. Keeping this in mind, the authors very thoughtfully include an essay on what junior-grade U.S. officers were reading at the time of publication; I found it very interesting that Jean Larteguy's "The Centurions," a novel about military service in France's failed wars to retain its empire, is apparently highly regarded. If there is a gap, one suspects that female officers have their own classics that are particularly relevant to them, and that are not reflected in this work.