Bookshelf

LOA READING LIST

Command

- Taking the Guidon: Exceptional Leadership at the Company Level, Nate Allen and Tony Burgess. 

- Sharing Success – Owning Failure: Preparing to Command in the Twenty-First Century Air Force, David L. Goldfein

- Company Command: The Bottom Line, John G. Meyer 

- The Challenge of Command: Reading for Military Excellence, Roger H. Nye 

- American Generalship:  Character is Everything:  The Art of Command, Edgar F. Puryear

- Commanding and Air Force Squadron in the Twenty-First Century, Jeffry F. Smith 

- Commanding an Air Force Squadron, Timothy T. Timmons

- On Basilik Station, David Weber

 

Leadership

Leadership Theory

- Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience (5th Ed), Richard L. Hughes 

- AU-24.  Concepts for Air Force Leadership.  Air University Press. 

 

Leadership Maxims

- The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle:  How to Become a Servant Leader, James C. Hunter

- Leadership: The Warrior’s Art (2d Ed), Christopher D. Kolenda

- Developing the Leaders Around You, John C. Maxwell  

- Rules & Tools for Leaders, Perry M. Smith  

- The Mask of Command, Sir John Keegan

- The Leadership Moment, Michael Useem
- Leading Up, Michael Useem

- Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest May

- The Art of Leadership, Keith Grint

- The First 90 Days:  Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at all Levels, Michael Watkins

 

Mentoring

- As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship, Howard Hendricks and William Hendricks

Logistics

Logistics Management

- Fundamentals of Logistics Management, Douglas M. Lambert, CPL

- Logistics: Principles and Applications, John W. Langford, CPL

- Logistics Engineering and Management, Benjamin S. Blanchard, CPL

- Quantitative Measurements for Logistics, Philip T. Frohne, CPL

- Maintenance Metrics US Air Force, AFLMA

- Back to Basics: A Handbook for LRS and APS Commanders, AFLMA

- AFTTP 3-3. Aircraft Maintenance

- Joint Concept for Logistics, Aug 2010, JCS/J4 (available via world wide web)

- AFTTP 3-3. Munitions and Missile Maintenance

 

Logistics History

- Moving Mountains, Lt Gen Gus Pagonis

- Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, Donald W. Engels

- Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton, Martin L. Van Creveld

- The Berlin Airlift, And and John Tusa

- Logistics in the National Defense, Rear Admiral Henry Eccles

- The Logistics of War, AFLMA

- Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present, John A. Lynn (editor)

 

Change Management

- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, David Allen

- The Goal:  A Process of Ongoing Improvement (3d Ed.), Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox

- Lean Thinking by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones

- Lean Six Sigma for Service, Michael L. George

- The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook, Michael L. George

- The Leadership Challenge, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

- How Good People Make Tough Choices, Rushworth M. Kidder

- Leading Strategic Change, J. Stewart Black and Hal B. Gregersen

- Made to Stick, Chip & Dan Heath

- Switch, Chip & Dan Heath

 

Global Environment

- Pentagon's New Map, Thomas P.M. Barnett
- The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman

- The World is Curved, David M. Smick
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman

- Freakonomics, Steven Levitt

- The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb

- Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban, Stephen Tanner

 

Titles pulled from:

SOLE, The International Society of Logistics

Defense Acquisition Portal

AFIT School of Systems and Logistics

Other sources