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For the last several years Adm. James Stavridis and his co-author, R. Manning Ancell, have surveyed over 200 lively and retired four-star military services officials about their reading practices and favorite books, requesting each for a set of titles that highly influenced their command skills and provided them with special insights that helped propel them to success regardless of the many demanding issues they experienced. The Leader's Bookshelf synthesizes their replies to identify the very best 50 books that will help virtually anyone become a better leader. Each one of the works - novels, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, management publications - are summarized and the main element command lessons extracted and shown. Whether individuals work their way through the complete list and read each reserve cover for, or read the summaries provided to ascertain which appeal to them most, The Leader's Bookshelf will provide a highway map to better leadership. Highlighting the value of reading in both a philosophical and a functional sense, The Leader's Bookshelf provides acoustics advice on how to generate an extensive library, lists other books worth reading to improve command skills, and analyzes how leaders use what they read to achieve their goals.
