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CSAF LEADERSHIP LIBRARYACTION ORDER A: AIRMENACTION ORDER B: BUREAUCRACYAction 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*ACTION ORDER C: COMPETITIONAction 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*ACTION ORDER D: DESIGN IMPLEMENTATIONAction 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**LEADERSHIP LIBRARY ARCHIVE
        Archive 2010-Current**CSAF Leadership Library**
 **CSAF Reading List 2018**
 **CSAF Reading List 2017**
 **CSAF Reading List 2016**FEATURED LINKS
        CMSAF Leadership Library
            From the CSAF
    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 StaffCSAF 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**Leadership Library Updates
    CSAF Leadership Library Courtesy GraphicCSAF Leadership Library: April 2024
        
        
        
        CSAF Leadership Library - Jan 2023CSAF Leadership Library: January 2024
        
        
        
        CSAF Leadership Library - Jan 2023CSAF Memo to Airmen: Leadership Library
        
        
        
        CSAF Leadership Library 2023CSAF Leadership Library: July 2023***"President Kennedy once said, Leadership and learning are indispensable from each other."***

*~ Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.*History
    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.CSAF LEADERSHIP LIBRARY LETTER


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*  Quick Links
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