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To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others – Daniel H. Pink

Heroes of the Sky: The Mighty Eighth Air Force – National Geographic

Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams

Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Documentary - The Legend: The Bessie Coleman Story

Action Order B: Bureaucracy
- The Silo Effect:: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
- Managing Generation Z: How to Recruit, Onboard, Develop, and Retain the Newest Generation in the Workplace
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
- Cautionary Tales Ep 6: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg
- Challenger: The Final Flight

The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

Managing Generation Z: How to Recruit, Onboard, Develop, and Retain the Newest Generation in the Workplace

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Should you Collaborate or Compete – Harvard Business Review

Action Order C: Competition
- The Prince: Searching for Xi Xinping
- Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War
- Intelligence Matters: China's Ambitions
- Five Came Back
- The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
- Choiceology Podcast: "Knew It All Along"
- A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, From The Pagans to Putin
- Laying the Foundation: Competition With China
- The Infinite Game
- The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

The Economist’s The Prince: Searching for Xi Xinping

Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War

Intelligence Matters, China's Ambitions in the World, and What They Mean to the U.S.

Action Order D: Design Implementation
- Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
- Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military
- Royal United Services Institute's Bridging the Oceans Podcast: What's All the RAUKUS About? The View from Washington
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- The Social Dilemma

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything

Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Militar

Royal United Services Institute's Building the Oceans Podcast - What's All the RAUKUS About? The View from Washingto

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Archive 2010-Current
- CSAF Leadership Library
- CSAF Reading List 2018
- CSAF Reading List 2017
- CSAF Reading List 2016

Welcome to the CSAF Leadership Library. This is a new way of looking at the traditional reading list – a fluid set of media that I have personally explored – that changes and evolves as novel ideas are published, recorded, and debated.

The Leadership Library will have periodic additions as I come across media and ideas I’d like to share to generate dialogue. My aim is that this Leadership Library sparks conversations for you with fellow Airmen, with your family, and with your friends.

Sincerely,

CHARLES Q. BROWN, JR.
General, U.S. Air Force
Chief of Staff

CSAF Leadership Library Bookshelf
ACTION ORDER A: AIRMEN
- History This Week: Tuskegee Top Gun
- Abraham Lincoln: History Channel
- Veteran Chronicles In Their Own Words: Gen. Charles McGee, Tuskegee Airmen, World War II, Korea, Vietnam
- Warriors In Their Own Words: Col. Bud Anderson: Triple-Ace Mustang Pilot
- To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
- Heroes of the Sky: The Mighty Eighth Air Force
- Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams
- Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
- The Legend: The Bessie Coleman Story
- #GenZ: Gen Z and Leadership
- Red Tail Angels: The Story and Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen
- The Playbook
- All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
- Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
ACTION ORDER B: BUREAUCRACY
- The Prepared Leader: Emerge from Any Crisis More Resilient Than Before
- The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
- Managing Generation Z: How to Recruit, Onboard, Develop, and Retain the Newest Generation in the Workplace
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- Working with Colleagues: Should You Collaborate or Compete?: HBR IdeaCast
- The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
- Cautionary Tales Ep 6: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg
- Challenger: The Final Flight
ACTION ORDER C: COMPETITION
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
- The Aerospace Advantage: Russian Airpower in Ukraine: Lessons for the West
- The Prince: Searching for Xi Xinping
- Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War
- Intelligence Matters: China's Ambitions
- Five Came Back
- The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
- Choiceology Podcast: "Knew It All Along"
- A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, From The Pagans to Putin
- Laying the Foundation: Competition With China
- The Infinite Game
- The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
ACTION ORDER D: DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION
- Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
- Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military
- Royal United Services Institute's Bridging the Oceans Podcast: What's All the RAUKUS About? The View from Washington
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- The Social Dilemma

"President Kennedy once said, Leadership and learning are indispensable from each other."

~ Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.

Gen. Ronald Fogleman created the CSAF Professional Reading Program in 1996 to develop a common frame of reference among Air Force members -- officers, enlisted, and civilians -- to help each of us become better, more effective advocates of air and space power. Each CSAF since then has enhanced and continued the Professional Reading Program.

In 2021, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who revised the program by renaming it as the CSAF Leadership Library and adding new media sources including podcasts and documentaries.

Action Order A: Airmen
- Veteran Chronicles In Their Own Words: Gen. Charles McGee, Tuskegee Airmen, World War II, Korea, Vietnam
- Warriors In Their Own Words: Col. Bud Anderson: Triple-Ace Mustang Pilot
- To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
- Heroes of the Sky: The Mighty Eighth Air Force
- Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams
- Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
- The Legend: The Bessie Coleman Story
- #GenZ: Gen Z and Leadership
- Red Tail Angels: The Story and Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen
- The Playbook
- All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
- Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

CSAF LEADERSHIP LIBRARY

ACTION ORDER A: AIRMEN

ACTION ORDER B: BUREAUCRACY

ACTION ORDER C: COMPETITION

ACTION ORDER D: DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION

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"President Kennedy once said, Leadership and learning are indispensable from each other."

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