Reading List
Leaders read!
The Veterans Leadership Council believes all leaders should read extensive and diverse collections of books, so each member of our Board of Directors, National Leadership Team, and City Leadership Teams have recommended a book that improved them personally and professionally as leaders to create the VLC Reading List.
"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers."
― President Harry Truman
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― General Jim Mattis
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
by Jim Mattis
Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It
by Roman Krznaric
Fighting Back
by Rocky Bleier & Terry O'Neil
Grant
by Ron Chernow
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
by Angela Duckworth
How to Read a Book: The Classis Guide to Intelligent Reading
by Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren
Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude
by Raymond Kethledge & Michael Erwin
Leadership Strategy and Tactics Field Manual
by Jocko Willink
Letters From a Stoic
by Lucius Seneca
My American Journey
by Colin Powell & Joseph Persico
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
Silos, Politics, & Turf Wars
by Patrick Lencioni
The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
by Christian Brose
The Oxford Handbook of Strategy
by David Faulkner & Andrew Campbell
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
by Adam Grant