Books
Recommended books to start thinking right.
Categories
Leadership and Teams
- The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander, Pete Blaber
- The Common Sense Way: A New Way to Think About Leading and Organizing, Pete Blaber
- Team of Teams, Gen. Stanley McChrystal
- One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams, Chris Fussell
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
- One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, Nathaniel C. Fick
- About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, Colonel David H. Hackworth
- Lead Yourself First, Raymond M. Kethledge
- Once an Eagle: A Novel, Anton Myrer
Mindset
- The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi
- Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Special Studies in Military Affairs), William S. Lind
- Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence, Abram N. Shulsky
- The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence, Gavin de Becker
- On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Dave Grossman
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Yvon Chouinard
- The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers, Arno Ilgner
- The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman. Takuan Soho
- The Thirty-Six Stratagems (Infinite Success)
- Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life, Patrick Van Horne
- Dokkodo, Miyamoto Musashi
- The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
- Soldier - Respect is Earned, Jay Morton
- Deliberate Discomfort, Jason B.A. Van Camp
- The Light and Fast Organization: A New Way of Dealing with Uncertainty, Patrick Hollingworth
- The Ellipsis Manual, Chase Hughes
Security
- Risk: A User Guide, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
- Threat Modeling: A Practical Guide for Development Teams, Izar Tarandach
- Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems, Kelly Shortridge
Influential
- Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber, Mark Twight
- REFUGE, Mark Twight
- Poison: Sermons on Suffering, Mark Twight
- Warrior’s Creed, Roger Sparks
- Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement, Nick Lavery
- STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World, Dan Lyons