Reading List

If you are looking to read wider on leadership you cant got wrong with the recomendations on this page.

Start at the Beginning

A good place to start is with the Army Leader Leadership Code, British Army Doctrine that draws together and formalises elements of good leadership that have been practised instinctively or consciously for centuries and is a soldierly codification of what is known to work. The Centre for Army Leadership (CAL) also provides a section of supported documents about leadership insights.

Serve to Lead is a must read for all Officers and downloadable free of charge here.

John Adair is another great source to take a look at. He "is without doubt one of the world's foremost thinkers of leaders" who is a former Army Officer and lecturer as RMAS, his work features heavely in the army leadership doctorin.

Army Leadrship Doctrine

Booklets outlining the armys approch to leadership, a must read of all AOSB Candidates.

Army Leadership Doctrine Sept 21.pdf
the_army_leadership_code_an_introductory_guide.pdf

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Recommended Reads on Leadership

Books Lists are a contencus thing, personal to those who contribute them. This one is from the ResPO KX team who contributed two books each.


eBooks & Articles

Have a look at our selection of ebooks and articles here.

Other Recommended Reads


Leadership

  • Start With Why – Simon Sinek

  • Turn The Ship Around - David Marquet

  • Creativity Inc – Ed Catmull

  • 7 Habits of highly effective People – Steven Covey

  • Good to Great – Jim Collins

  • True North – Bill North

  • Dare to Lead – Professor Brené Brown

  • Mindset – Carol Dweck

  • The Fearless Organisation – Amy Edmondson

  • Teaming – Amy Edmondson

  • Team of Teams – General Stanley McChrystal

  • The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle

  • Legacy – James Kerr

  • The Five Dysfunctions of Teams – Patrick Lencioni

  • Daring Greatly – Professor Brené Brown

  • Grit – Professor Angela Duckworth

  • Emotional Capitalists: The New Leaders – Martyn Newman

  • Primal Leadership – Professor Daniel Goleman et al.

  • Smarter, Faster, Better – Charles Duhigg

  • The Talent Code – Daniel Coyle

  • The Leadership Challenge – James M. Kouzes

  • Extreme Ownership – Jock Willink/Leif Babin

  • On becoming a Leader – Warren Bennins

  • Effective Leadership – John Adair

  • Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek

Life Skills

  • Never Split the Differance - Vos

  • Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed

  • The Secret Barriester - The Secret Barriester

  • This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay

  • The Art of Resilience - Ross Edduly

  • What Every BODY is Saying - Joe Navarro & Marvin Karlins

  • The Chimp Paradox – Professor Steven Peters

Military

  • Junior Officers Reading Club - Patrick Hennessey

  • Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall

  • Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of Flags - Tim Marshall

  • Shadowplay - Tim Marshall

  • Black Hearts - Jim Frederick

  • 18 Platoon - Sydney Jarry

  • War - Sebastien Junger

  • Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War - Kate Adie

  • By Tank Into Normandy - Stuart Hills

  • Mediterranean Safari - T P Daniel

  • Falklands Commando - Hugh McManners

  • Charlie Company - Peter Cochrane

  • Quartered Safe Out Here- George MacDonald Fraser

  • The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby - Alex Bowlby

  • Stand Up Straight - Major Genral Paul Nanson

  • Across an Angry Sea - Cedric Delves